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[kon-juh-gey-shuhn] / ˌkɒn dʒəˈgeɪ ʃən /


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He’d explain I’d gotten the conjugation wrong and I’d quietly Google what that meant.

From Slate Apr. 12, 2026

Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.

From Salon Jan. 18, 2026

By joining the expertise in ON chemistry, including novel functionalization technology, of the Gothelf lab together with the peptide science legacy of Novo Nordisk, new and robust conjugation chemistry has emerged.

From Science Daily Dec. 13, 2023

The awkwardness of screwing up in front of strangers, butchering their language and sweating while you raid the mind’s dusty corners for a verb conjugation, is not to be found here.

From Slate Jul. 25, 2023

By the time he in third grade, though, he get to talking better than the President a the United States, coming home using words like conjugation and parliamentary.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

"If anyone asks if I can say something in Spanish, I just bosh out some verb conjugations," Raducanu joked.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2025

But Spanish speakers from four centuries ago might have recognized the unusual verb conjugations — if not the unorthodox pronunciations and words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America.

From New York Times Apr. 9, 2023

Mandarin might not have gender or case endings, but there’s more to grammar than conjugations.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2020

They shifted their gaze from their teacher, Zainab Sunji, to the notebooks before them in an attempt to replicate the verb conjugations Sunji had written on the board.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2016

If I never learned my French conjugations from Anatole, at least I would try to learn patience.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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