Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spar
Participle: sparred
Gerund: sparring
Indicative
Present
| I | spar |
| you | spar |
| he;she;it | spars |
| we | spar |
| you | spar |
| they | spar |
Perfect
| I | have sparred |
| you | have sparred |
| he;she;it | has sparred |
| we | have sparred |
| you | have sparred |
| they | have sparred |
Past
| I | sparred |
| you | sparred |
| he;she;it | sparred |
| we | sparred |
| you | sparred |
| they | sparred |
Pluperfect
| I | had sparred |
| you | had sparred |
| he;she;it | had sparred |
| we | had sparred |
| you | had sparred |
| they | had sparred |
Future
| I | will spar |
| you | will spar |
| he;she;it | will spar |
| we | will spar |
| you | will spar |
| they | will spar |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sparred |
| you | will have sparred |
| he;she;it | will have sparred |
| we | will have sparred |
| you | will have sparred |
| they | will have sparred |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spar |
| you | spar |
| he;she;it | spar |
| we | spar |
| you | spar |
| they | spar |
Perfect
| I | have sparred |
| you | have sparred |
| he;she;it | have sparred |
| we | have sparred |
| you | have sparred |
| they | have sparred |
Imperfect
| I | sparred |
| you | sparred |
| he;she;it | sparred |
| we | sparred |
| you | sparred |
| they | sparred |
Pluperfect
| I | had sparred |
| you | had sparred |
| he;she;it | had sparred |
| we | had sparred |
| you | had sparred |
| they | had sparred |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spar |
| you | would spar |
| he;she;it | would spar |
| we | would spar |
| you | would spar |
| they | would spar |
Perfect
| I | would have sparred |
| you | would have sparred |
| he;she;it | would have sparred |
| we | would have sparred |
| you | would have sparred |
| they | would have sparred |
Imperative
| you | spar |
| we | Let's spar |
| you | spar |
Verbs conjugated like 'spar'
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 'spar'
par,
scar,
sear,
snar,
soar,
spam,
span,
spare,
spark,
spat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear. See: German, old spelling '
Sparren', Danish '
sparre'.
Verbs referencing "spar"
Swedish
sparra, Dutch
sparren, Finnish with old forms
sparrata.
Sample Sentences
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The church dores were sparred,
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Fast boltyd and barryd,
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Yet wyth a prety gyn
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I fortuned to come in, […] [c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:]