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Conjugation of overhear

overhear · overheard · overheard

Meaning
hear without the speaker knowing

Verbs with the same pattern are shown below.

Verbs conjugated like hear · heard · heard

Indicative

Simple present

Use it for habits and facts: she writes every day.

Ioverhear
youoverhear
he/she/itoverhears
weoverhear
theyoverhear

Present continuous

Use it for actions happening now or around now: she is writing.

Iam overhearing
youare overhearing
he/she/itis overhearing
weare overhearing
theyare overhearing

Simple past

Use it for a finished past action: she wrote yesterday.

Ioverheard
youoverheard
he/she/itoverheard
weoverheard
theyoverheard

Past continuous

Use it for an action in progress in the past: she was writing.

Iwas overhearing
youwere overhearing
he/she/itwas overhearing
wewere overhearing
theywere overhearing

Present perfect

Use it for past actions connected to now: she has written three pages.

Ihave overheard
youhave overheard
he/she/ithas overheard
wehave overheard
theyhave overheard

Present perfect continuous

Use it for an action continuing up to now: she has been writing.

Ihave been overhearing
youhave been overhearing
he/she/ithas been overhearing
wehave been overhearing
theyhave been overhearing

Past perfect

Use it for an action before another past action: she had written it.

Ihad overheard
youhad overheard
he/she/ithad overheard
wehad overheard
theyhad overheard

Past perfect continuous

Use it for duration before a past point: she had been writing.

Ihad been overhearing
youhad been overhearing
he/she/ithad been overhearing
wehad been overhearing
theyhad been overhearing

Simple future

Use it for future action with will: she will write.

Iwill overhear
youwill overhear
he/she/itwill overhear
wewill overhear
theywill overhear

Future continuous

Use it for an action in progress at a future time: she will be writing.

Iwill be overhearing
youwill be overhearing
he/she/itwill be overhearing
wewill be overhearing
theywill be overhearing

Future perfect

Use it for an action completed before a future time: she will have written.

Iwill have overheard
youwill have overheard
he/she/itwill have overheard
wewill have overheard
theywill have overheard

Future perfect continuous

Use it for duration before a future time: she will have been writing.

Iwill have been overhearing
youwill have been overhearing
he/she/itwill have been overhearing
wewill have been overhearing
theywill have been overhearing

Conditional

Present conditional

Use it for imagined results: she would write.

Iwould overhear
youwould overhear
he/she/itwould overhear
wewould overhear
theywould overhear

Present continuous conditional

Use it for imagined ongoing action: she would be writing.

Iwould be overhearing
youwould be overhearing
he/she/itwould be overhearing
wewould be overhearing
theywould be overhearing

Perfect conditional

Use it for imagined past results: she would have written.

Iwould have overheard
youwould have overheard
he/she/itwould have overheard
wewould have overheard
theywould have overheard

Perfect continuous conditional

Use it for imagined past duration: she would have been writing.

Iwould have been overhearing
youwould have been overhearing
he/she/itwould have been overhearing
wewould have been overhearing
theywould have been overhearing

Imperative

Imperative (you / let's)

Use it for instructions: write; let's write; do not write.

youoverhear
let'slet's overhear
negative youdo not overhear
negative let'slet's not overhear

Non-finite

Infinitive / to-infinitive

Use the base form and to-infinitive after many verbs: to write.

overhear

Perfect infinitive

Use it for an earlier action after a verb: to have written.

to have overheard

Present participle (gerund)

Use the -ing form as a gerund or participle: writing.

overhearing

Past participle

Use it in perfect tenses and passive-like adjectives: written.

overheard

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S’entraîner

Indicative · Simple future

overhear