Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yarn
Participle: yarned
Gerund: yarning
Indicative
Present
| I | yarn |
| you | yarn |
| he;she;it | yarns |
| we | yarn |
| you | yarn |
| they | yarn |
Perfect
| I | have yarned |
| you | have yarned |
| he;she;it | has yarned |
| we | have yarned |
| you | have yarned |
| they | have yarned |
Past
| I | yarned |
| you | yarned |
| he;she;it | yarned |
| we | yarned |
| you | yarned |
| they | yarned |
Pluperfect
| I | had yarned |
| you | had yarned |
| he;she;it | had yarned |
| we | had yarned |
| you | had yarned |
| they | had yarned |
Future
| I | will yarn |
| you | will yarn |
| he;she;it | will yarn |
| we | will yarn |
| you | will yarn |
| they | will yarn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yarned |
| you | will have yarned |
| he;she;it | will have yarned |
| we | will have yarned |
| you | will have yarned |
| they | will have yarned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yarn |
| you | yarn |
| he;she;it | yarn |
| we | yarn |
| you | yarn |
| they | yarn |
Perfect
| I | have yarned |
| you | have yarned |
| he;she;it | have yarned |
| we | have yarned |
| you | have yarned |
| they | have yarned |
Imperfect
| I | yarned |
| you | yarned |
| he;she;it | yarned |
| we | yarned |
| you | yarned |
| they | yarned |
Pluperfect
| I | had yarned |
| you | had yarned |
| he;she;it | had yarned |
| we | had yarned |
| you | had yarned |
| they | had yarned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yarn |
| you | would yarn |
| he;she;it | would yarn |
| we | would yarn |
| you | would yarn |
| they | would yarn |
Perfect
| I | would have yarned |
| you | would have yarned |
| he;she;it | would have yarned |
| we | would have yarned |
| you | would have yarned |
| they | would have yarned |
Imperative
| you | yarn |
| we | Let's yarn |
| you | yarn |
Verbs conjugated like 'yarn'
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 'yarn'
barn,
darn,
earn,
warn,
yar,
yard,
yark,
yarl,
yarm,
yarr,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English yern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰerH- (“tharm, guts, intestines”).
2. Cognates
3. Akin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Danish garn, Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latin hernia (“rupture”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn. See: Dutch '
garen'.
Verbs referencing "yarn"
Naija
yan.
Sample Sentences
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"He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em." [1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:]
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1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,
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“Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”
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They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café. [1942, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co:]