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Conjugation of verb (past tense) brief

Infinitive

brief

/bɹiːf/

Past simple

briefed

/bɹiːft/

Past participle

briefed

/bɹiːft/





Conjugation of the regular verb [brief]

Conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the verb "break" can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking.


The term conjugation is applied only to the inflection of verbs, and not of other parts of speech (inflection of nouns and adjectives is known as declension). Also it is often restricted to denoting the formation of finite forms of a verb – these may be referred to as conjugated forms, as opposed to non-finite forms, such as the infinitive or gerund, which tend not to be marked for most of the grammatical categories.


Conjugation is also the traditional name for a group of verbs that share a similar conjugation pattern in a particular language (a verb class). A verb that does not follow all of the standard conjugation patterns of the language is said to be an irregular verb.

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Present

I
brief 
you
brief 
he/she/it
briefs 
we
brief 
you
brief 
they
brief 

Present Continuous

I
am briefing 
you
are briefing 
he/she/it
is briefing 
we
are briefing 
you
are briefing 
they
are briefing 

Past simple

I
briefed 
you
briefed 
he/she/it
briefed 
we
briefed 
you
briefed 
they
briefed 

Past Continuous

I
was briefing 
you
were briefing 
he/she/it
was briefing 
we
were briefing 
you
were briefing 
they
were briefing 

Present perfect

I
have briefed 
you
have briefed 
he/she/it
has briefed 
we
have briefed 
you
have briefed 
they
have briefed 

Present perfect continuous

I
have been briefing 
you
have been briefing 
he/she/it
has been briefing 
we
have been briefing 
you
have been briefing 
they
have been briefing 

Past perfect

I
had briefed 
you
had briefed 
he/she/it
had briefed 
we
had briefed 
you
had briefed 
they
had briefed 

Past perfect continuous

I
had been briefing 
you
had been briefing 
he/she/it
had been briefing 
we
had been briefing 
you
had been briefing 
they
had been briefing 

Future

I
will brief 
you
will brief 
he/she/it
will brief 
we
will brief 
you
will brief 
they
will brief 

Future continuous

I
will be briefing 
you
will be briefing 
he/she/it
will be briefing 
we
will be briefing 
you
will be briefing 
they
will be briefing 

Future perfect

I
will have briefed 
you
will have briefed 
he/she/it
will have briefed 
we
will have briefed 
you
will have briefed 
they
will have briefed 

Future perfect continuous

I
will have been briefing 
you
will have been briefing 
he/she/it
will have been briefing 
we
will have been briefing 
you
will have been briefing 
they
will have been briefing 

Conditional of the regular verb [brief]

Causality (also referred to as causation or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause. In general, a process has many causes, which are also said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of, or causal factor for, many other effects, which all lie in its future.


The conditional mood (abbreviated cond) is a grammatical mood used in conditional sentences to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual.


English does not have an inflective (morphological) conditional mood, except in as much as the modal verbs could, might, should and would may in some contexts be regarded as conditional forms of can, may, shall and will respectively. What is called the English conditional mood (or just the conditional) is formed periphrastically using the modal verb would in combination with the bare infinitive of the following verb. (Occasionally should is used in place of would with a first person subject – see shall and will. Also the aforementioned modal verbs could, might and should may replace would in order to express appropriate modality in addition to conditionality.)

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Conditional present

I
would brief 
you
would brief 
he/she/it
would brief 
we
would brief 
you
would brief 
they
would brief 

Conditional present progressive

I
would be briefing 
you
would be briefing 
he/she/it
would be briefing 
we
would be briefing 
you
would be briefing 
they
would be briefing 

Conditional perfect

I
would have briefed 
you
would have briefed 
he/she/it
would have briefed 
we
would have briefed 
you
would have briefed 
they
would have briefed 

Conditional perfect progressive

I
would have been briefing 
you
would have been briefing 
he/she/it
would have been briefing 
we
would have been briefing 
you
would have been briefing 
they
would have been briefing 

Subjunktiv of the regular verb [brief]

The subjunctive is a grammatical mood, a feature of the utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it. Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as: wish, emotion, possibility, judgement, opinion, obligation, or action that has not yet occurred; the precise situations in which they are used vary from language to language. The subjunctive is one of the irrealis moods, which refer to what is not necessarily real. It is often contrasted with the indicative, a realis mood which is used principally to indicate that something is a statement of fact.


Subjunctives occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly that-clauses. Examples of the subjunctive in English are found in the sentences "I suggest that you be careful" and "It is important that she stay by your side."


The subjunctive mood in English is a clause type used in some contexts which describe non-actual possibilities, e.g. "It's crucial that you be here" and "It's crucial that he arrive early." In English, the subjunctive is syntactic rather than inflectional, since there is no specifically subjunctive verb form. Rather, subjunctive clauses recruit the bare form of the verb which is also used in a variety of other constructions.

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Present subjunctive

I
brief 
you
brief 
he/she/it
brief 
we
brief 
you
brief 
they
brief 

Past subjunctive

I
briefed 
you
briefed 
he/she/it
briefed 
we
briefed 
you
briefed 
they
briefed 

Past perfect subjunctive

I
had briefed 
you
had briefed 
he/she/it
had briefed 
we
had briefed 
you
had briefed 
they
had briefed 

Imperativ of the regular verb [brief]

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.

An example of a verb used in the imperative mood is the English phrase "Go." Such imperatives imply a second-person subject (you), but some other languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let them (do something)" (the forms may alternatively be called cohortative and jussive).

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Imperativ

I
brief 
you
Let's brief 
he/she/it
brief 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Participle of the regular verb [brief]

​The past participle is one of the most important parts of English grammar. It’s used to express perfect tenses and to form the passive voice. It’s also a useful tool for writing sentences that describe actions that started in the past and are still happening today. The past participles of irregular verbs don’t follow a specific pattern and can have numerous endings.

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Present participle

I
briefing 
you
 
he/she/it
 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Past participle

I
briefed 
you
 
he/she/it
 
we
 
you
 
they
 













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