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Conjugation of verb (past tense) play

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Infinitive

play

/pleɪ/

Past simple

played

/pleɪd/

Past participle

played

/pleɪd/





Conjugation of the regular verb [play]

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
play 
you
play 
he/she/it
plays 
we
play 
you
play 
they
play 

Present Continuous

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

Past simple

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

Past Continuous

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

Present perfect

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

Present perfect continuous

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

Past perfect

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

Past perfect continuous

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

Future

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

Future continuous

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

Future perfect

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

Future perfect continuous

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

Conditional of the regular verb [play]

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 play 
you
would play 
he/she/it
would play 
we
would play 
you
would play 
they
would play 

Conditional present progressive

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

Conditional perfect

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

Conditional perfect progressive

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

Subjunktiv of the regular verb [play]

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
play 
you
play 
he/she/it
play 
we
play 
you
play 
they
play 

Past subjunctive

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

Past perfect subjunctive

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

Imperativ of the regular verb [play]

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
play 
you
Let´s play 
he/she/it
play 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Participle of the regular verb [play]

​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
playing 
you
 
he/she/it
 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Past participle

I
played 
you
 
he/she/it
 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Phrasal verbs of the regular verb [play]

Play about

Play along

Play around

Play at

Play away

Play back

Play down

Play off

Play on

Play out

Play up

Play up to

Play upon

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