Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to travail
Participle: travailed
Gerund: travailing
Indicative
Present
| I | travail |
| you | travail |
| he;she;it | travails |
| we | travail |
| you | travail |
| they | travail |
Perfect
| I | have travailed |
| you | have travailed |
| he;she;it | has travailed |
| we | have travailed |
| you | have travailed |
| they | have travailed |
Past
| I | travailed |
| you | travailed |
| he;she;it | travailed |
| we | travailed |
| you | travailed |
| they | travailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had travailed |
| you | had travailed |
| he;she;it | had travailed |
| we | had travailed |
| you | had travailed |
| they | had travailed |
Future
| I | will travail |
| you | will travail |
| he;she;it | will travail |
| we | will travail |
| you | will travail |
| they | will travail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have travailed |
| you | will have travailed |
| he;she;it | will have travailed |
| we | will have travailed |
| you | will have travailed |
| they | will have travailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | travail |
| you | travail |
| he;she;it | travail |
| we | travail |
| you | travail |
| they | travail |
Perfect
| I | have travailed |
| you | have travailed |
| he;she;it | have travailed |
| we | have travailed |
| you | have travailed |
| they | have travailed |
Imperfect
| I | travailed |
| you | travailed |
| he;she;it | travailed |
| we | travailed |
| you | travailed |
| they | travailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had travailed |
| you | had travailed |
| he;she;it | had travailed |
| we | had travailed |
| you | had travailed |
| they | had travailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would travail |
| you | would travail |
| he;she;it | would travail |
| we | would travail |
| you | would travail |
| they | would travail |
Perfect
| I | would have travailed |
| you | would have travailed |
| he;she;it | would have travailed |
| we | would have travailed |
| you | would have travailed |
| they | would have travailed |
Imperative
| you | travail |
| we | Let's travail |
| you | travail |
Verbs conjugated like 'travail'
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 'travail'
avail,
betravail,
prevail,
reavail,
stravaig,
trail,
travel,
travell,
brail,
bravado,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "labor, toil," c.1250, from O.Fr.
travail "suffering or painful effort, trouble" (12c.), from
travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture," from V.L.
*tripaliare "to torture," from
*tripalium (in L.L.
trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from L.
tripalis "having three stakes" (from
tria, tres "three" +
palus "stake"), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from c.1300.
2. From Middle English travailen, from Old French travailler, from the noun (see above). Doublet of travel. Displaced native Middle English swinken (“to work”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, to toil, to work at”)). See: Old French '
travailler', Old English '
swincan'.
Sample Sentences
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[A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil. [1552, Hugh Latimer, Fourth Sermon on the Lord's Prayer, Preached before Lady Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk:]
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 15:20:]
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Other poet travailing in this plain high-way of paſtoral know I none. [1714, J[ohn] Gay, “The Proeme to the Courteous Reader”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC:]
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A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde. [1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John:]
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And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:16:]