conjugate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From the participle stem of Latin coniugāre (“to yoke together”), from con- +‎ iugāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒndʒəɡeɪt/

Verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.

   In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.

2. (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
3. (rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 55:

     The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.

4. (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

Hypernyms

• inflect

Translations

to inflect (a verb) for each person

• Armenian: խոնարհել (hy) (xonarhel)
• Asturian: conxugar
• Bulgarian: спряга́м (sprjagám)
• Catalan: conjugar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 变位 (zh) (biànwèi)

• Czech: časovat (cs)
• Dutch: vervoegen (nl)
• Estonian: pöörama
• Faroese: benda
• Finnish: taivuttaa (fi)
• French: conjuguer (fr)
• Galician: conxugar
• Georgian: უღლება (uɣleba)
• German: konjugieren (de)
• Greek: κλίνω (el) (klíno), κλίνομαι (klínomai) [passive (proportional attitude)]
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• Hebrew: היטה (hitá)
• Ido: konjugar (io)
• Italian: coniugare (it)
• Luxembourgish: konjugéieren
• Norman: conjudgi
• Polish: (intransitive) odmieniać (pl), koniugować
• Portuguese: conjugar (pt)
• Romanian: conjuga (ro)
• Russian: спряга́ть (ru) impf (sprjagátʹ), проспряга́ть (ru) pf (prosprjagátʹ) (transitive), спряга́ться (ru) impf (sprjagátʹsja), проспряга́ться pf (prosprjagátʹsja) (intransitive)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-naisg
• Sicilian: cuniugari (scn)
• Slovene: spregati (sl) impf
• Spanish: conjugar (es)
• Swedish: böja (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: chia động từ

See also

• decline

Noun

conjugate (plural conjugates)

1. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
2. (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
3. (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
4. (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
5. (mathematics) An explementary angle.
6. (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
   • 17th c, John Bramhall,

     We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.

7. (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together

Translations

entity formed by joining smaller ones

• Bulgarian: съединение (bg) n (sǎedinenie)
• Finnish: yhdistelmä (fi), konjugaatti
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• Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)

math: complex conjugate — see complex conjugate

math: any of a set of zeros of a polynomial

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math: explementary angle

• Finnish: eksplementtikulma
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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} съединение (bg) n (sǎedinenie)
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• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} konjugat (sv)

Adjective

conjugate (not comparable)

1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
2. (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
3. (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
4. (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
5. (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.