Modern English → Old English
Old English word for ago
8 headwords match “ago”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 8 strongest follow; agan ranks first.
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ago — to go out, (in the past participle) gone
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative āh first-person singular past indicative āhte second-person singular present indicative āhst second-person singular past indicative āhtest third-person singular present indicative āh third-person singular past indicative āhte -
ago — week
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wice genitive singular wican dative singular wican accusative singular wican nominative plural wican genitive plural wicena -
ago — long ago
- appears in the definition
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ago — afterwards, subsequently
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ago — long ago, in days of yore, of old
- appears in the definition
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ago — not (used to negate adjectives, especially in phrases like "not long ago" and "not far fro
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular nāwiht genitive singular nāwihtes dative singular nāwihte accusative singular nāwiht -
ago — not long ago, recently
- appears in the definition
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ago — because of; out of (due to a given cause or motivation) (+ dative)
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fōr genitive singular fōre dative singular fōre accusative singular fōre nominative plural fōra, fōre genitive plural fōra
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “ago” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.
| The English word opens the headword's definition | +10 |
| It appears later in the first definition | +6 |
| It appears in any definition | +3 |
| It is in the headword's links | +2 |
| It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence) | +9 |
| The headword has an inflection table | +3 |
| Part of speech is a proper noun | −5 |
| Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy) | −3 |
| The headword is an alternative form | −6 |
| The first definition is longer than three words | −2 |
A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.
Not one of these?
The match may be a different sense of “ago”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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