to conjugate
Third Person
conjugates
Present Participle
conjugating
Past Tense
conjugated
Past Participle
conjugated
1
(grammar) to show how a verb changes depending on number, person, tense, etc.
- In Spanish class, we learned how to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense.
- The linguistics professor explained how different languages conjugate verbs differently based on their grammatical structures.
2
unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds