fon – Old English verb conjugation

Old English verb forms of fon

Infinitive

fōn
fōnne

Participles

Presentfōnde
Past(ġe)fangen

Indicative

Present

1st sing.fō
2nd sing.fēhst
3rd sing.fēhþ
1st plur.fōþ
2nd plur.fōþ
3rd plur.fōþ

Past

1st sing.fēng
2nd sing.fēnge
3rd sing.fēng
1st plur.fēngon
2nd plur.fēngon
3rd plur.fēngon

Subjunctive

Present

1st sing.fō
2nd sing.fō
3rd sing.fō
1st plur.fōn
2nd plur.fōn
3rd plur.fōn

Past

1st sing.fēnge
2nd sing.fēnge
3rd sing.fēnge
1st plur.fēngen
2nd plur.fēngen
3rd plur.fēngen

Imperative

Singularfōh
Pluralfōþ

Verbs conjugated like 'fon'

fon,

Verbs similar to 'fon'

afon, don, hon, ætfon, ahon, befon, beon, deon, fleon, gan,

Etymology

From earlier *fōhan [ˈfoː.xɑn], from Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han. Cognate with Old Frisian fā, Old Saxon fahan, Old Dutch fān, Old High German fāhan, Old Norse fá, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (fahan). See: Old Saxon 'fahan', Old High German 'fāhan'.

Verbs referencing "fon"

English receive.

Sample Sentences

  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 21, verse 3 (Then said Simon Peter to them. I want to go fishing. Then they said to him, and we want to go with you. And they went out and went in a ship, and caught nothing in the night.)
  • c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  • Hēr bēoþ oft fangene sēolas and hranas and mereswīn. (Seals, whales and dolphins are often caught here.)
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  • Ōsrēd, þe wæs Norþanhymbra cining, æfter wræcsīþe hām cumenum ġelǣht wæs ⁊ ofslagen on XVIII Kƚ Octoƀ ⁊ his līc liġþ æt Tīnamūþe. ⁊ Æþelrēd cining feng tō nīwan wīfe, sēo wæs Ælflēd ġehāten, on III Kƚ Octobr̃. (Osred, who was king of Northumbrian, was apprehended and slain on the 17th of October after coming home from his exile, and his body lies at Tynemouth. And King Aethelred took a new wife, whose name was Aelfled, on the third of October.)
  • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  • Æfter him feng his sunu tō Persea rīċe Xersis. (After him his son Xerxes took over the Persian Empire.)
  • Hīe cwǣdon þæt hē wolde tō þǣre byrġ fōn. (They said he would take over the city.)

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of fon