stick – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to stick down sth
Participle: stuck down sth
Gerund: sticking down sth

Cognates

See the 3 cognates of stick

Indicative

Present

I	stick down sth
you	stick down sth
he;she;it	sticks down sth
we	stick down sth
you	stick down sth
they	stick down sth

Perfect

I	have stuck down sth
you	have stuck down sth
he;she;it	has stuck down sth
we	have stuck down sth
you	have stuck down sth
they	have stuck down sth

Past

I	stuck down sth
you	stuck down sth
he;she;it	stuck down sth
we	stuck down sth
you	stuck down sth
they	stuck down sth

Pluperfect

I	had stuck down sth
you	had stuck down sth
he;she;it	had stuck down sth
we	had stuck down sth
you	had stuck down sth
they	had stuck down sth

Future

I	will stick down sth
you	will stick down sth
he;she;it	will stick down sth
we	will stick down sth
you	will stick down sth
they	will stick down sth

Future Perfect

I	will have stuck down sth
you	will have stuck down sth
he;she;it	will have stuck down sth
we	will have stuck down sth
you	will have stuck down sth
they	will have stuck down sth

Subjunctive

Present

I	stick down sth
you	stick down sth
he;she;it	stick down sth
we	stick down sth
you	stick down sth
they	stick down sth

Perfect

I	have stuck down sth
you	have stuck down sth
he;she;it	have stuck down sth
we	have stuck down sth
you	have stuck down sth
they	have stuck down sth

Imperfect

I	stuck down sth
you	stuck down sth
he;she;it	stuck down sth
we	stuck down sth
you	stuck down sth
they	stuck down sth

Pluperfect

I	had stuck down sth
you	had stuck down sth
he;she;it	had stuck down sth
we	had stuck down sth
you	had stuck down sth
they	had stuck down sth

Conditional

Present

I	would stick down sth
you	would stick down sth
he;she;it	would stick down sth
we	would stick down sth
you	would stick down sth
they	would stick down sth

Perfect

I	would have stuck down sth
you	would have stuck down sth
he;she;it	would have stuck down sth
we	would have stuck down sth
you	would have stuck down sth
they	would have stuck down sth

Imperative

you	stick down sth
we	Let's stick down sth
you	stick down sth

Indicative

Present

I	am sticking down sth
you	are sticking down sth
he;she;it	is sticking down sth
we	are sticking down sth
you	are sticking down sth
they	are sticking down sth

Perfect

I	have been sticking down sth
you	have been sticking down sth
he;she;it	has been sticking down sth
we	have been sticking down sth
you	have been sticking down sth
they	have been sticking down sth

Past

I	was sticking down sth
you	were sticking down sth
he;she;it	was sticking down sth
we	were sticking down sth
you	were sticking down sth
they	were sticking down sth

Pluperfect

I	had been sticking down sth
you	had been sticking down sth
he;she;it	had been sticking down sth
we	had been sticking down sth
you	had been sticking down sth
they	had been sticking down sth

Future

I	will be sticking down sth
you	will be sticking down sth
he;she;it	will be sticking down sth
we	will be sticking down sth
you	will be sticking down sth
they	will be sticking down sth

Future Perfect

I	will have been sticking down sth
you	will have been sticking down sth
he;she;it	will have been sticking down sth
we	will have been sticking down sth
you	will have been sticking down sth
they	will have been sticking down sth

Conditional

Present

I	would be sticking down sth
you	would be sticking down sth
he;she;it	would be sticking down sth
we	would be sticking down sth
you	would be sticking down sth
they	would be sticking down sth

Perfect

I	would have been sticking down sth
you	would have been sticking down sth
he;she;it	would have been sticking down sth
we	would have been sticking down sth
you	would have been sticking down sth
they	would have been sticking down sth

Verbs conjugated like 'stick'

cling, dig, fling, hamstring, sling, slink, stick, sting, string, swing, underdig, unstick, unstring, wring, foind, outfling, overswing, restick, restring, undersling, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'stick'

sick, slick, snick, stack, sticky, stink, stock, tick, bestick, blick,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to tolerate: aby, stomach, tolerate
to have sexual intercourse: bonk, company, dight, ride, roger, shag, copulate, copulate with, tumble
to adhere: adhere
to stop moving: stop
persist: plug, persevere
to hesitate: barcamenarsi, destreggiarsi, essere indeciso, essere titubante, indugiare, nicchiare, peritarsi, prendere tempo, prorogare, temporeggiare, tentennare, tergiversare, esitare, hesitate, titubare, traccheggiare
to engage in sexual intercourse: bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, tumble, wango tango
to continue to exist: abide, aby, endure, go on, hold on, last, live, persist, remain, stick it out, stick out
to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur: abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang, undergo
to become or remain attached: adhere, attach, cleave, cling, conglutinate, stick together, stick with
to stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination: boggle, deliberate, demur, falter, hesitate, hover, mammer, scruple, stand shilly-shally, waver
to pierce something with any long, pointed object: empierce, fix, impale, pierce, prick, puncture, run through, stake, transfix, transpierce
to pierce or wound with a pointed tool or weapon: chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, pigstick, pink, poach, run through, spear, speet, splash, stab, stob, stog, thrust, yerk
pierce: penetrate, puncture, spear, stab, impale, gore, pin, transfix
adhere: cling, hold, cleave, cohere, abide, persist, remain, stay

Antonyms

in blackjack, be dealt another card: stay, twist
adhere: disunite, loosen, separate, unfasten

Additional Information

Cf. Old English weak verb stician (stiocian) .

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
3. Proto-Indo-European *stignéh₂-
4. Proto-Germanic *stikkōną
5. Proto-Germanic *stikkô
6. Proto-West Germanic *stikkō
7. Old English sticca
8. Middle English stikke
9. English stick
10. From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô (“stick, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”), Dutch stek (“spot, place, home”), German Low German Stick (“stick”), German Stecken (“stick”), Danish and Norwegian stikke (“stick”), Swedish sticka (“splinter, needle”). Related to stigma. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Stikke', German, old spelling 'Stecken', Swedish 'sticka'.

Verbs referencing "stick"

Swedish sticka, Greek, Ancient στίζω, Russian стегать.

Sample Sentences

[...] three or four chilly stewards were warming their hands; while on either side, extending down its whole dreary length, was a long, long table, over each of which a rack, fixed to the low roof, and stuck full of drinking-glasses and cruet-stands, hinted dismally at rolling seas and heavy weather. I had not at that time seen the ideal presentment of this chamber which has since gratified me so much, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] except my shoes, which are stranded on a carpet-bag, high and dry, like a couple of coal-barges. Suddenly I see them spring into the air, and behold the looking-glass, which is nailed to the wall, sticking fast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state-room is standing on its head. (American Notes for General Circulation)
“ Get along wid ye ! ” said the mother, pushing away their woolly heads. “ Ye'll all stick together, and never get clar, if ye do dat fashion. Go long to de spring and wash yerselves ! ” she said, seconding her exhortations by a slap, which resounded very formidably, but which seemed only [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
[...] an elderly female, in as many scraps of finery as Madge Wildfire herself. Her head in particular was so strewn with scraps of gauze and cotton and bits of paper, and had so many queer odds and ends stuck all about it, that it looked like a bird’s-nest. She was radiant with imaginary jewels; wore a rich pair of undoubted gold spectacles; and gracefully dropped upon her lap, as we approached, a very [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] with which every feature of his face seemed sharpened into sympathy; his thin, long nose, ran out as if it was eager to bore into the nature of things in general; his sleek, thin, black hair was stuck eagerly forward, and all his motions and evolutions expressed a dry, cautious acuteness. The great man poured out a big tumbler half full of raw spirits, and gulped it down without a word. The [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
[...] of trouble to ’ em; one would think, now, they'd be glad to get clar on ’ em; but they ar n't. And the more trouble a young un is, and the more good for nothing, as a gen’l thing, the tighter they sticks to ’ em. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
[...] this open space, like something meteoric that has fallen down from the moon, is an odd, lop-sided, one-eyed kind of wooden building, that looks like a church, with a flag-staff as long as itself sticking out of a steeple something larger than a tea-chest. Under the window is a small stand of coaches, whose slave-drivers are sunning themselves on the steps of our door, and talking idly together. [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
One young gentleman (a very delicate porker with several straws sticking about his nose, betokening recent investigations in a dung-hill ) was walking deliberately on, profoundly thinking, when suddenly his brother, who was lying in a miry hole unseen by him, rose up [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] in America, had its large dining-room for the public table. It was an odd, shambling, low-roofed out-house, half-cowshed and half-kitchen, with a coarse brown canvas table-cloth, and tin sconces stuck against the walls, to hold candles at supper-time. The horseman had gone forward to have coffee and some eatables prepared, and they were by this time nearly ready. He had ordered ‘wheat-bread and [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
There sat Tom, on a little mossy seat in the court, every one of his button-holes stuck full of cape jessamines, and Eva, gayly laughing, was hanging a wreath of roses round his neck; and then she sat down on his knee, like a chip-sparrow, still laughing. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
♪ Look hard, for sure you are stuck Reach out and just try your luck ♪ (Magudam)
♪ Shall I bid your immoral life goodbye? ♪ ♪ Look... look out there Open your eyes wide and stare ♪ ♪ Look hard, for sure you 're stuck Reach out and just try your luck ♪ (Magudam)

stick – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of stick

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'stick'

Verbs similar to 'stick'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "stick"

Sample Sentences