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The verb's way of dressing differently for every tense, person, and mood.
means The set of different forms a verb takes to show tense, person, and number — like 'walk,' 'walks,' 'walked,' and 'walking' all being the same verb in different outfits.
from From Latin conjugare, 'to yoke together' — con- ('with') plus jugare ('to join,' from jugum, 'yoke'). The Romans used it for joining in marriage or partnership; grammarians borrowed the image for verbs 'yoked' to their various endings, each form bound to the same root stem.
- english laziness
- most verbs only change in four or five forms
- spanish overachiever
- one verb can wear fifty-plus endings
- irregulars
- to be defies its own rules in every language
- biology hijack
- bacteria also conjugate, swapping DNA instead of endings