conjugation

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin coniugātiō (“combining, connecting; conjugation”), from coniugō (“join, unite together”), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“join, bind, connect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/
• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

conjugation (countable and uncountable, plural conjugations)

1. The coming together of things; union.
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

Coordinate terms

• declension, declination

Related terms

• conjugate

Translations

coming together of things

• Bulgarian: съединяване (bg) n (sǎedinjavane), съединение (bg) n (sǎedinenie)
• Finnish: yhdistyminen (fi)
• Greek: σύζευξη (el) f (sýzefxi), συζυγία (el) f (syzygía)
• Icelandic: samkoma f
• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō), 接合 (ja) (せつごう, setsugō), 連結 (ja) (れんけつ, renketsu)
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• Polish: połączenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f, junção (pt) f, união (pt) f, conjugação (pt) f
• Tagalog: pagsasama, pagkakaisa
• Thai: การผันคำกริยา

fusion of organisms

• Bulgarian: конюгация (bg) f (konjugacija)
• Czech: konjugace (cs) f
• Finnish: yhdyntä (fi), yhtyminen (fi)
• Greek: σύζευξη (el) f (sýzefxi), συζυγία (el) f (syzygía)
• Irish: comhchuingiú m
• Japanese: 接合 (ja) (せつごう, setsugō), 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō),
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• Polish: koniugacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: união (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: konjugacija (sh) f
• Tagalog: pagkakaisa
• Turkish: konjugasyon (tr)

in some languages, one of several classifications of verbs

• Arabic: تَصْرِيف m (taṣrīf)
• Armenian: խոնարհում (hy) (xonarhum)
• Azerbaijani: təsrif
• Belarusian: спражэ́нне n (spražénnje)
• Bulgarian: спреже́ние (bg) n (sprežénie)
• Catalan: conjugació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變位／变位 (zh) (biànwèi), 变位 (zh) (biànwèi)

• Czech: časování (cs) n
• Danish: konjugation (da) c, bøjning (da) c
• Dutch: vervoeging (nl) f
• Estonian: pööramine, konjugatsioon
• Finnish: konjugaatio (fi)
• French: conjugaison (fr) f
• Georgian: უღვლილება (uɣvlileba)
• German: Konjugation (de) f
• Greek: συζυγία (el) f (syzygía)

  Ancient: συζυγία f (suzugía)

• Hungarian: igeragozás (hu), igeragozási típus
• Icelandic: beyging (is) f
• Italian: coniugazione (it) f
• Japanese: 活用 (ja) (かつよう, katsuyō)
• Kazakh: жіктелу (jıktelu), жіктеу (jıkteu)
• Korean: 활용 (ko) (hwaryong)
• Kyrgyz: жакталыш (ky) (jaktalış)
• Latvian: konjugācija f
• Lithuanian: konjugacija f
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• Low German:

  German Low German: Konjugatschoon f

• Macedonian: конјугација f (konjugacija)
• Norman: conjudgaison f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bøyning m or f, bøying (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: bøying f

• Persian: تصریف (fa) (tasrif)
• Polish: koniugacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: conjugação (pt) f
• Romanian: conjugare (ro)
• Romansch: conjugaziun f
• Russian: спряже́ние (ru) n (sprjažénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: конјугација f

  Roman: konjugacija (sh) f

• Slovak: časovanie n
• Slovene: konjugacija f
• Spanish: conjugación (es) f
• Swedish: konjugation (sv) c, böjning (sv) c
• Tagalog: sabanghay
• Tajik: тасрифкунӣ (tg) (tasrifkuni), тасриф (tg) (tasrif)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: дієвідмі́на f (dijevidmína)
• Uzbek: tuslanish (uz)
• Vietnamese: chia động từ

act of conjugating a verb

• Albanian: zgjedhim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِقْتِرَان m (iqtirān), تَصْرِيف اَلْأَفْعَال m (taṣrīf al-ʔafʕāl) (inflection of verbs), تَصْرِيف m (taṣrīf)
• Aragonese: conchugación f
• Armenian: խոնարհում (hy) (xonarhum)
• Azerbaijani: təsrif
• Belarusian: спражэ́нне n (spražénnje)
• Bulgarian: спряга́не n (sprjagáne)
• Chechen: хийцар (xiı̇car)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變位／变位 (zh) (biànwèi), 变位 (zh) (biànwèi)

• Czech: časování (cs) n
• Danish: konjugation (da) c, verbbøjning c, bøjning (da) c
• Dutch: vervoeging (nl) f
• Esperanto: konjugacio
• Estonian: konjugatsioon
• Faroese: bending (fo) f
• Finnish: taivuttaminen (fi), taivutus (fi)
• French: conjugaison (fr) f
• Georgian: უღვლილება (uɣvlileba), უღლება (uɣleba)
• German: Konjugation (de) f
• Greek: κλίση (el) f (klísi)
• Hebrew: הטיה (he) f (hat'aia), נטיה (he) f (n'tiyah)
• Hungarian: igeragozás (hu)
• Icelandic: sagnbeyging (is) f, persónubeyging sagna f, beyging (is) f
• Irish: réimniú
• Italian: coniugazione (it) f
• Japanese: 活用 (ja) (かつよう, katsuyō)
• Kazakh: жіктелу (jıktelu), жіктеу (jıkteu)
• Korean: 활용 (ko) (hwaryong)
• Kyrgyz: жакталыш (ky) (jaktalış)
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• Latin: coniugatio (la) f
• Latvian: konjugācija f
• Lithuanian: konjugacija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Konjugatschoon f

• Macedonian: конјугација f (konjugacija)
• Norman: conjudgaison f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bøyning m or f, bøying (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: bøying f

• Persian: تصریف (fa) (tasrif)
• Polish: koniugacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: conjugação (pt) f
• Romanian: conjugare (ro) f
• Russian: спряже́ние (ru) n (sprjažénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: конјугација f, спрезање n

  Roman: konjugacija (sh) f, sprezanje (sh) n

• Slovak: časovanie n
• Slovene: konjugacija f
• Spanish: conjugación (es) f
• Swedish: konjugation (sv) c, böjning (sv) c, konjugering c
• Tagalog: pagbabanghay
• Tajik: тасрифкунӣ (tg) (tasrifkuni), тасриф (tg) (tasrif)
• Turkish: çekim (tr)
• Ukrainian: дієвідмі́на f (dijevidmína)
• Uzbek: tuslanish (uz)
• Vietnamese: chia động từ
• Yiddish: קאָניוגאַציע f (konyugatsye)

conjugated forms of a verb

• Danish: verbbøjning c, konjugation (da) c
• Finnish: taivutuskaava (fi), taivutus (fi)
• French: conjugaison (fr) f
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• Norman: conjudgaison f
• Portuguese: conjugação (pt) f, forma verbal f

See also

• flection, flexion, inflection, inflexion