Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to twin
Participle: twinned
Gerund: twinning
Indicative
Present
| I | twin |
| you | twin |
| he;she;it | twins |
| we | twin |
| you | twin |
| they | twin |
Perfect
| I | have twinned |
| you | have twinned |
| he;she;it | has twinned |
| we | have twinned |
| you | have twinned |
| they | have twinned |
Past
| I | twinned |
| you | twinned |
| he;she;it | twinned |
| we | twinned |
| you | twinned |
| they | twinned |
Pluperfect
| I | had twinned |
| you | had twinned |
| he;she;it | had twinned |
| we | had twinned |
| you | had twinned |
| they | had twinned |
Future
| I | will twin |
| you | will twin |
| he;she;it | will twin |
| we | will twin |
| you | will twin |
| they | will twin |
Future Perfect
| I | will have twinned |
| you | will have twinned |
| he;she;it | will have twinned |
| we | will have twinned |
| you | will have twinned |
| they | will have twinned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | twin |
| you | twin |
| he;she;it | twin |
| we | twin |
| you | twin |
| they | twin |
Perfect
| I | have twinned |
| you | have twinned |
| he;she;it | have twinned |
| we | have twinned |
| you | have twinned |
| they | have twinned |
Imperfect
| I | twinned |
| you | twinned |
| he;she;it | twinned |
| we | twinned |
| you | twinned |
| they | twinned |
Pluperfect
| I | had twinned |
| you | had twinned |
| he;she;it | had twinned |
| we | had twinned |
| you | had twinned |
| they | had twinned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would twin |
| you | would twin |
| he;she;it | would twin |
| we | would twin |
| you | would twin |
| they | would twin |
Perfect
| I | would have twinned |
| you | would have twinned |
| he;she;it | would have twinned |
| we | would have twinned |
| you | would have twinned |
| they | would have twinned |
Imperative
| you | twin |
| we | Let's twin |
| you | twin |
Verbs conjugated like 'twin'
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 'twin'
thin,
tin,
twain,
twig,
twine,
twink,
twit,
win,
atwind,
bein,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
twinn "consisting of two, twofold, double," probably ultimately from P.Gmc.
*twinjaz (cf. O.N.
tvinnr, O.Dan.
tvinling, Du.
tweeling, Ger.
zwillung), from PIE
*dwisno- (cf. L.
bini "two each," Lith.
dvynu "twins"), from
*dwi- "double," from base
*dwo- "two" (see two). The verb meaning "to combine two things closely" is recorded from c.1394. The noun developed from O.E.
getwinn "double."
2. PIE word
3. *dwóh₁
4. From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ġetwin, ġetwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinaz (“double/two each, twin”), Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twīhnaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian двойня (dvojnja, “twin”). See: Icelandic '
tvenna'.
Sample Sentences
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Reading, the English town, is twinned with Clonmel in Ireland.
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Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
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Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye. [1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 1”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
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Yet, Manet heightens its effect by performing the clever ocular trick of practically twinning her with her pictorial counterpart, Madame Lejosne. [2006, Aruna D'Souza, Tom McDonough, Tom Mc Donough, The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-century Paris, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 60:]
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“I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.” [1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:]
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Twinning today is abnormal in all higher primates, and possibly adaptive only in the one species with an obstetrical technology that permits a high rate of survival of twins. [1992, George Christopher Williams, Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 79:]
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The invert child and her innocent child are together lost children, twinning each other despite their distinctions. [2009, Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 111:]
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I was awake to the horror of our twinning each other in paralysis, and feared that we would soon talk only about the daily, intimate care serious paralysis demands […] [2017, Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 111:]
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“I see you got us twinning today.” Byrd kissed Lay quickly. “I wanted you to dress like me today,” he admitted. [2018, Vivian Blue, Your Heart Is Mine: A Criminal Romance, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:]
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“We're totally twinning today!” said Zoey. “You sure are,” said Chef Piper. “I whipped up a special dessert for tonight.” [2019, Lisa Mullarkey, Paisley, ABDO, →ISBN, page 17:]
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Simon Porte Jacquemus Twins With His Grandmother at the 2026 Met Gala [title] [2026 May 4, Marie Courtois, “Simon Porte Jacquemus Twins With His Grandmother at the 2026 Met Gala”, in Vogue:]