Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tack
Participle: tacked
Gerund: tacking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tack |
| you | tack |
| he;she;it | tacks |
| we | tack |
| you | tack |
| they | tack |
Perfect
| I | have tacked |
| you | have tacked |
| he;she;it | has tacked |
| we | have tacked |
| you | have tacked |
| they | have tacked |
Past
| I | tacked |
| you | tacked |
| he;she;it | tacked |
| we | tacked |
| you | tacked |
| they | tacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had tacked |
| you | had tacked |
| he;she;it | had tacked |
| we | had tacked |
| you | had tacked |
| they | had tacked |
Future
| I | will tack |
| you | will tack |
| he;she;it | will tack |
| we | will tack |
| you | will tack |
| they | will tack |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tacked |
| you | will have tacked |
| he;she;it | will have tacked |
| we | will have tacked |
| you | will have tacked |
| they | will have tacked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tack |
| you | tack |
| he;she;it | tack |
| we | tack |
| you | tack |
| they | tack |
Perfect
| I | have tacked |
| you | have tacked |
| he;she;it | have tacked |
| we | have tacked |
| you | have tacked |
| they | have tacked |
Imperfect
| I | tacked |
| you | tacked |
| he;she;it | tacked |
| we | tacked |
| you | tacked |
| they | tacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had tacked |
| you | had tacked |
| he;she;it | had tacked |
| we | had tacked |
| you | had tacked |
| they | had tacked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tack |
| you | would tack |
| he;she;it | would tack |
| we | would tack |
| you | would tack |
| they | would tack |
Perfect
| I | would have tacked |
| you | would have tacked |
| he;she;it | would have tacked |
| we | would have tacked |
| you | would have tacked |
| they | would have tacked |
Imperative
| you | tack |
| we | Let's tack |
| you | tack |
Verbs conjugated like 'tack'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tack'
back,
cack,
dack,
fack,
gack,
hack,
jack,
lack,
mack,
nack,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "clasp, hook, fastener," 1296, from O.N.Fr.
taque "nail, pin, peg," probably from a Gmc. source (cf. M.Du.
tacke "twig, spike," Low Ger.
takk "tine, pointed thing," Ger.
Zacken "sharp point, tooth, prong"); perhaps related to tail. Meaning "small, sharp nail with a flat head" is attested from 1463. Verb sense of "to attach as a supplement" (with suggestion of hasty or arbitrary proceeding) is attested from 1683. The meaning "rope to hold the corner of a sail in place" is first recorded 1481; hence the verb meaning "sail into the wind," first recorded 1557, which lead to the fig. sense of "course or line of conduct or action" (1675).
2. From Middle English takken (“to attach; nail”), from the noun (see above). See: Middle English '
takken'.
Sample Sentences
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The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a colored poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. [1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:]
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to tack (something) onto (something)
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In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars. [2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312:]