conjugation

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin coniugātiō, from coniugō (“join, unite together”), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“join, bind, connect”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Wikipedia conjugation (plural conjugations)

1. The coming together of things.
2. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction
3. Sexual relations within marriage
4. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
5. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb.
6. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb.
7. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds
8. (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg^-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism
9. (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex conjugation

Translations

coming together of things

• Bulgarian: съединяване (bg) (sǎedinjavane) n, съединение (bg) (sǎedinenie) n
• Greek: σύζευξη (sízefksi) f, συζυγία (siziyía) f
• Icelandic: samkoma (is) f

• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (ketsugō), 接合 (ja) (setsugō), 連結 (ja) (renketsu)
• Tagalog: pagsasama, pagkakaisa

fusion of organisms

• Bulgarian: конюгация (bg) (konjugacija) f
• Czech: konjugace (cs) f
• Greek: σύζευξη (sízefksi) f, συζυγία (siziyía) f
• Japanese: 接合 (ja) (setsugō), 結合 (ja) (ketsugō)

• Polish: koniugacja (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: konjugacija (sh) f
• Tagalog: pagkakaisa
• Turkish: konjugasyon (tr)

in some languages, one of several classifications of verbs

• Armenian: խոնարհում (hy) (xonarhum)
• Bulgarian: спрежение (bg) (sprežénie) n
• Catalan: conjugació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變位 (cmn), 变位 (cmn) (biànwèi)

• French: conjugaison (fr) f
• Georgian: უღვლილება (ka) (uḡvlileba)
• German: Konjugation (de) f
• Greek: συζυγία (el) (siziyía) f
• Italian: coniugazione (it) f

• Japanese: 活用 (ja) (かつよう, katsuyō)
• Jèrriais: conjudgaison f
• Polish: koniugacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: conjugação (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Romansch: conjugaziun (rm) f
• Russian: спряжение (ru) (sprjažénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: konjugacija (sh) f
• Spanish: conjugación (es) f
• Swedish: konjugation (sv), böjning (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

act of conjugating a verb

• Albanian: zgjedhim (sq) m
• Arabic: اقتران (ar) (iqtirān) m, تصريف الأفعال (ar) (taṣrīf al-ʾafʿāl) m (inflection of verbs), تصريف (ar) (taṣrīf) m
• Armenian: խոնարհում (hy) (xonarhum)
• Bulgarian: спрягане (bg) (sprjagane) n
• Chechen: хийцар
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變位 (cmn), 变位 (cmn) (biànwèi)

• Czech: časování (cs) n
• Dutch: vervoeging (nl) f
• Esperanto: konjugacio (eo)
• Finnish: taivuttaminen, taivutus
• French: conjugaison (fr) f
• Georgian: უღვლილება (ka) (uḡvlileba)
• German: Konjugation (de) f

• Greek: κλίση (el) (klísi) f
• Hebrew: הטיה (he) (hat'aia) f, נטיה (he) (n'tiyah) f
• Icelandic: sagnbeyging (is) f, persónubeyging sagna (is) f
• Irish: réimniú (ga)
• Italian: coniugazione (it) f
• Japanese: 活用 (ja) (かつよう, katsuyō)
• Jèrriais: conjudgaison f
• Latin: coniugatio (la) f
• Polish: koniugacja (pl) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: спряжение (ru) (sprjažénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: konjugacija (sh) f, sprezanje (sh) n
• Spanish: conjugación (es) f
• Swedish: konjugation (sv), böjning (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

conjugated forms of a verb

• French: conjugaison (fr) f

• Jèrriais: conjudgaison f

Related terms

• conjugate

Coordinate terms

• declension

See also

• declension
• inflection, inflexion