Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slim
Participle: slimmed
Gerund: slimming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | slim |
| you | slim |
| he;she;it | slims |
| we | slim |
| you | slim |
| they | slim |
Perfect
| I | have slimmed |
| you | have slimmed |
| he;she;it | has slimmed |
| we | have slimmed |
| you | have slimmed |
| they | have slimmed |
Past
| I | slimmed |
| you | slimmed |
| he;she;it | slimmed |
| we | slimmed |
| you | slimmed |
| they | slimmed |
Pluperfect
| I | had slimmed |
| you | had slimmed |
| he;she;it | had slimmed |
| we | had slimmed |
| you | had slimmed |
| they | had slimmed |
Future
| I | will slim |
| you | will slim |
| he;she;it | will slim |
| we | will slim |
| you | will slim |
| they | will slim |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slimmed |
| you | will have slimmed |
| he;she;it | will have slimmed |
| we | will have slimmed |
| you | will have slimmed |
| they | will have slimmed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slim |
| you | slim |
| he;she;it | slim |
| we | slim |
| you | slim |
| they | slim |
Perfect
| I | have slimmed |
| you | have slimmed |
| he;she;it | have slimmed |
| we | have slimmed |
| you | have slimmed |
| they | have slimmed |
Imperfect
| I | slimmed |
| you | slimmed |
| he;she;it | slimmed |
| we | slimmed |
| you | slimmed |
| they | slimmed |
Pluperfect
| I | had slimmed |
| you | had slimmed |
| he;she;it | had slimmed |
| we | had slimmed |
| you | had slimmed |
| they | had slimmed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slim |
| you | would slim |
| he;she;it | would slim |
| we | would slim |
| you | would slim |
| they | would slim |
Perfect
| I | would have slimmed |
| you | would have slimmed |
| he;she;it | would have slimmed |
| we | would have slimmed |
| you | would have slimmed |
| they | would have slimmed |
Imperative
| you | slim |
| we | Let's slim |
| you | slim |
Verbs conjugated like 'slim'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'slim'
glim,
plim,
shim,
skim,
slam,
slime,
slip,
slit,
slum,
stim,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
2. The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
3. Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
Verbs referencing "slim"
Swedish
slimma, Welsh
slimio.
Sample Sentences