tattle – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of tattle

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to tattle
Participle: tattled
Gerund: tattling

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of tattle

Indicative

Present

Itattle
youtattle
he;she;ittattles
wetattle
youtattle
theytattle

Perfect

Ihave tattled
youhave tattled
he;she;ithas tattled
wehave tattled
youhave tattled
theyhave tattled

Past

Itattled
youtattled
he;she;ittattled
wetattled
youtattled
theytattled

Pluperfect

Ihad tattled
youhad tattled
he;she;ithad tattled
wehad tattled
youhad tattled
theyhad tattled

Future

Iwill tattle
youwill tattle
he;she;itwill tattle
wewill tattle
youwill tattle
theywill tattle

Future Perfect

Iwill have tattled
youwill have tattled
he;she;itwill have tattled
wewill have tattled
youwill have tattled
theywill have tattled

Subjunctive

Present

Itattle
youtattle
he;she;ittattle
wetattle
youtattle
theytattle

Perfect

Ihave tattled
youhave tattled
he;she;ithave tattled
wehave tattled
youhave tattled
theyhave tattled

Imperfect

Itattled
youtattled
he;she;ittattled
wetattled
youtattled
theytattled

Pluperfect

Ihad tattled
youhad tattled
he;she;ithad tattled
wehad tattled
youhad tattled
theyhad tattled

Conditional

Present

Iwould tattle
youwould tattle
he;she;itwould tattle
wewould tattle
youwould tattle
theywould tattle

Perfect

Iwould have tattled
youwould have tattled
he;she;itwould have tattled
wewould have tattled
youwould have tattled
theywould have tattled

Imperative

youtattle
weLet's tattle
youtattle

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam tattling
youare tattling
he;she;itis tattling
weare tattling
youare tattling
theyare tattling

Perfect

Ihave been tattling
youhave been tattling
he;she;ithas been tattling
wehave been tattling
youhave been tattling
theyhave been tattling

Past

Iwas tattling
youwere tattling
he;she;itwas tattling
wewere tattling
youwere tattling
theywere tattling

Pluperfect

Ihad been tattling
youhad been tattling
he;she;ithad been tattling
wehad been tattling
youhad been tattling
theyhad been tattling

Future

Iwill be tattling
youwill be tattling
he;she;itwill be tattling
wewill be tattling
youwill be tattling
theywill be tattling

Future Perfect

Iwill have been tattling
youwill have been tattling
he;she;itwill have been tattling
wewill have been tattling
youwill have been tattling
theywill have been tattling

Conditional

Present

Iwould be tattling
youwould be tattling
he;she;itwould be tattling
wewould be tattling
youwould be tattling
theywould be tattling

Perfect

Iwould have been tattling
youwould have been tattling
he;she;itwould have been tattling
wewould have been tattling
youwould have been tattling
theywould have been tattling

Other

Verbs similar to 'tattle'

battle, rattle, sattle, tittle, tottle, twattle, wattle, bottle, brattle, buttle,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to chatter
prattle
to report incriminating information or wrongdoing
rat out
to talk about someone else's private or personal business
blab, chelp, clepe, dish, dish the dirt, gossip, jaunder, labrish, shoot the shit, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school, tittle-tattle
to talk too much; to talk idly
babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1481, "to stammer, prattle," in Caxton's translation of "Reynard the Fox," probably from M.Flem. tatelen "to stutter," parallel to M.Du., M.L.G., E.Fris. tateren "to chatter, babble," possibly of imitative origin. The meaning "tell tales or secrets" is first recorded 1581. Sense influenced by tittle. Tattletale formed in Eng. 1888, probably patterned on telltale (1548).
2. From Middle Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to babble, chatter”) (modern Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to talk, chatter”)), originally imitative. The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian tätelje (“to talk nonsense, babble”), Middle Low German tāteren, tadderen (“to babble, chatter”) (whence modern German Low German tatern (“to chatter”)), Low German tateln, täteln (“to cackle, gabble”). Compare also Middle English dadel, dadull (“tattling, gossip”), and its alteration twaddle. See: Dutch 'tatelen', Frisian, Saterlandic 'tätelje', Low Saxon 'tateln'.

Verbs referencing "tattle"

German, old spelling daddeln.

Sample Sentences

  • He were an excellent man that were made iuſt in the mid-way between him and Benedick, the one is too like an image and ſaies nothing, and the other too like my ladies eldeſt ſonne, euermore tatling. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • By this time, My Lord, I doubt not but that you wonder, why I have run off from my Biaſs ſo long together, and made ſo tedious a Digreſſion from Satire to Heroique Poetry. But if You will not excuſe it, by the tattling Quality of Age, which, as Sir William Davenant ſays, is always Narrative; yet I hope the uſefulneſs of what I have to ſay on this Subject, will qualifie the remoteneſs of it; […] [1693, John Dryden, “[The Dedication]”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page ix:]
  • Nor can any Man be either wiſe or happy till he hath arrived to that greatneſs of Mind, that no more conſiders the tatling of the multitude than the whiſtling of the Wind. [1700, Joseph Glanvil [i.e., Joseph Glanvill], “The Preface”, in Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. […], 3rd edition, London: Printed for A. L. and sold by Roger Tuckyr, […], →OCLC:]
  • She tattled on: first to one, then to the other—then to all, till she had tattled herself out of breath;—and then the orthodox half hour had expired, and the bell was rung, and the carriage ordered, and Mrs. Hare rose to depart. [1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in Alice or The Mysteries […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book III, pages 297–298:]
  • There are some children who just like to talk about others. They are not reporting. They are tattling, telling one negative after another. Their goal is to get others in trouble. […] Children sometimes do not mean to tattle about someone else. They do it because they are having a problem with another child and just don't know any other way to handle the problem. [2009, Maryln Appelbaum, “How to Handle Children Who are Disruptive”, in How to Handle Hard-to-handle Preschoolers: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing; Appelbaum Training Institute, →ISBN, page 4:]
  • I trapped the girls inside their tent / Someone tattled on me / Put a frog in the bathroom vent / Someone tattled on me / Gave my dinner to a bear / Put a snake in Auntie's chair / And a tick in Gramp's rootbeer / Someone tattled on me [2009, Renee Gregory, “I’m Gettin’ Broccoli for Dinner”, in Bugs, Bears and S’mores: Songs of the Great Outdoors, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 100:]
  • Vera is a kindergarten student who loves to be the center of adult attention. She has a quick temper and frequently talks out in class. She also frequently "tattles" on other students. [2015, Deanne A. Crone, Leanne S. Hawken, Robert H. Horner, “Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment”, in Building Positive Behavior Support Systems in Schools: Functional Behavioral Assessment, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.; London: The Guilford Press, →ISBN, part II (Embedding Functional Behavioral Assessment within School Systems: Case Examples), page 39:]
  • But who can give to his leasing a conclusion, and pronounce it without tatelying, like as it were written tofore him, and that he can so blind the people that his leasing shall better be believed than the truth: that is the man. [1481, “The History of Reynard the Fox”, in William Caxton, transl., edited by Henry Morley, Early Prose Romances: […] (The Carisbrooke Library; IV), London: George Routledge and Sons, […], published 1889, →OCLC, chapter XXVII (How Reynart the Fox Came another Time to the Court), page 108:]