Meaning of "begged" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF BEGGED

begged

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEGGED

Begged is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb begged in English.

WHAT DOES BEGGED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Begging

Begging or panhandling is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation. Beggars may be found in public places such as transport routes, urban parks, and near busy markets. Besides money, they may also ask for food, drink, cigarettes or other small items. Beggar, 1622, by Jacques Callot According to a study in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, " stated that they would prefer a minimum-wage job, typically citing a desire for a 'steady income' or 'getting off the street.' However, many felt they could not handle conventional jobs because of mental illness, physical disability or lack of skills."...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BEGGED

PRESENT

Present

I beg

you beg

he/she/it begs

we beg

you beg

they beg

Present continuous

I am begging

you are begging

he/she/it is begging

we are begging

you are begging

they are begging

Present perfect

I have begged

you have begged

he/she/it has begged

we have begged

you have begged

they have begged

Present perfect continuous

I have been begging

you have been begging

he/she/it has been begging

we have been begging

you have been begging

they have been begging

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I begged

you begged

he/she/it begged

we begged

you begged

they begged

Past continuous

I was begging

you were begging

he/she/it was begging

we were begging

you were begging

they were begging

Past perfect

I had begged

you had begged

he/she/it had begged

we had begged

you had begged

they had begged

Past perfect continuous

I had been begging

you had been begging

he/she/it had been begging

we had been begging

you had been begging

they had been begging

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will beg

you will beg

he/she/it will beg

we will beg

you will beg

they will beg

Future continuous

I will be begging

you will be begging

he/she/it will be begging

we will be begging

you will be begging

they will be begging

Future perfect

I will have begged

you will have begged

he/she/it will have begged

we will have begged

you will have begged

they will have begged

Future perfect continuous

I will have been begging

you will have been begging

he/she/it will have been begging

we will have been begging

you will have been begging

they will have been begging

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would begged

you would begged

he/she/it would begged

we would begged

you would begged

they would begged

Conditional continuous

I would be begging

you would be begging

he/she/it would be begging

we would be begging

you would be begging

they would be begging

Conditional perfect

I would have begged

you would have begged

he/she/it would have begged

we would have begged

you would have begged

they would have begged

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been begging

you would have been begging

he/she/it would have been begging

we would have been begging

you would have been begging

they would have been begging

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you beg
we let´s beg
you beg

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to beg

Past participle

begged

Present Participle

begging

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BEGGED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «begged» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of begged

avoid · beseech · blag · body-swerve · bum · cadge · conjure · crave · desire · dodge · duck · elude · entreat · equivocate · eschew · evade · flannel · freeload · fudge · hedge · implore · importune · mooch · parry · petition · pray · request · scrounge · shirk · shun · sidestep · solicit · supplicate

TRANSLATION OF BEGGED

Find out the translation of begged to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of begged from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «begged» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 求
• Translator English - Spanish: suplicado
• English: begged
• Translator English - Hindi: विनती
• Translator English - Arabic: توسلت
• Translator English - Russian: умоляла
• Translator English - Portuguese: implorou
• Translator English - Bengali: begged
• Translator English - French: supplié
• Translator English - Malay: Memohon
• Translator English - German: bat
• Translator English - Japanese: 懇願
• Translator English - Korean: 애원
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyuwun pangapunten
• Translator English - Vietnamese: xin
• Translator English - Tamil: கெஞ்சி
• Translator English - Marathi: विनवणी केली
• Translator English - Turkish: yalvardım
• Translator English - Italian: pregò
• Translator English - Polish: błagał
• Translator English - Ukrainian: благала
• Translator English - Romanian: implorat
• Translator English - Greek: παρακάλεσε
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gesmeek
• Translator English - Swedish: bad
• Translator English - Norwegian: tigget

10 QUOTES WITH «BEGGED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word begged.

1

Barbara Boxer

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

2

Octavia E. Butler

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

3

Bill Callahan

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

4

Charisma Carpenter

So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.

5

Laverne Cox

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

6

Ellen Gustafson

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

7

Kate Hudson

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

8

Anne Hutchinson

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

9

Jonathan Jackson

My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting.

10

Zola Jesus

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEGGED»

Discover the use of begged in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to begged and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Not Even If You Begged

Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood solely because they reached out to her first.

Francis Ray, 2008

Begged at Court: A Legend of Westminster (1867)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Charles Knight, 2008

Saved, Sanctified, and Same-Gender Loving: A Story-Journal ...

And I begged and pleaded with my daddy to wake up. I begged... I pleaded...I shook him! I begged... I pleaded...I shook him! I cried. I begged... I pleaded...I shook him! I cried. I begged... I pleaded...I shook him! I cried! I begged... I pleaded .

D. Marcell, 2011

Human Rights, Inc: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and ...

86 But in our forgetfiil era of crisis-driven human rights practice, we might remember that the UDHR was itself composed under the sign of emergency, when questions of nature were not so much begged as they were understood to be ...

Joseph Slaughter, 2009

Spiritual Warfare

The demons begged Jesus to let them go into them, and he gave them permission. When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. When those tending ...

Jr. Preston T. Bailey, 2008

Revised edition of Bullions' Analytical and practical ...

FORM FOR WRITTEN EXERCISES WHEN THE CON~ STRUOTION ONLY IS REQUIRED. * “He was very poor, and begged earnestly for food." “'11: . . . . . .. Personal pronoun. standing for, &c., and nominative to " was and begged.” was .

Peter Bullions, 1866

The Farmer's Magazine

He begged to propose the Judges, and thanks to them fer the able and impartial manner in which they performed their arduous duties. Mr. Thos. Beaslev said he begged on behalf of himself and his co-judges, to return them his sincere thanks  ...

Joseph Rogerson, 1839

The Guardian Projects

The people of the village went to his wife, who was said to have mystical powers, not to mention great beauty, and begged her to save the children, at least the children if none of them could be saved. She had promised Uhlon never to use her ...

James Herbert Edwards, 2007

Complementation and Case Grammar: A Syntactic and Semantic ...

For instance, if the PP is omitted in Everyone begged of Father to come along, the result is Everyone begged to come along. That is, in the resulting sentence lacking the PP, the controller of PRO is NP1 and the pattern is the infinitival ...

Juhani Rudanko, 1989

The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and ...

Subsequently, begging intensity increased faster in the chicks from the large broods, so that at 90 minutes after feeding they begged more intensely than the chicks from small broods, in terms of posture, call rate, and call volume. Factors other ...

William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEGGED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term begged is used in the context of the following news items.

The Bella twins 'begged' Vince McMahon to call up NXT Divas after …

Actually, some of them have "begged" Vince McMahon for it, if we're to believe Brie Bella, who told Female First as much in a recent interview:. «Cageside Seats, Jul 15»

Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi BEGGED Jenna Coleman not to quit …

We were all left a tad confused when, after announcing her decision to leave Doctor Who at the end of series 8, it was revealed that Jenna ... «Unreality TV, Jul 15»

NRL's Alex McKinnon begged his parents to let him die after horror …

Rugby league star Alex McKinnon, who was paralysed after a tackle on the field last year, begged his parents to let him die as he lay in a ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

TIVOLI ENQUIRY: West Kingston residents begged soldiers not to …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Lieutenant Colonel David Cummings testified today that after the soldiers took control of Denham Town in West ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»

Adam Lallana begged me to join Liverpool, reveals latest Reds …

"We spoke a lot," said the England right-back. "He said he wanted me to sign and I said if the deal moves along and gets done, I'd be with him ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

Caitlyn Jenner is being "begged" by designers to wear their clothes

The 65-year-old former Olympian - who was known as Bruce Jenner before undergoing a gender transition - is reportedly being offered all sorts ... «NZCity, Jul 15»

Caitlyn Jenner 'begged' by designers

Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly being ''begged'' by designers to wear their clothes when she walks the red carpet at the ESPY Awards next month. «Times LIVE, Jun 15»

'Please don't kill me'

A TAXI driver cried and begged for his life when a passenger attacked him and jammed car keys into both of his ears. Siju Punnouse, 35, told the NT News he ... «Perth Now, Jun 15»

St Helens man begged doctors to remove his infected eye

A St Helens man begged doctors to remove his eye after a post-operative bug – which he claims was missed by staff at the Royal Liverpool ... «Liverpool Echo, Jun 15»

Caitlyn Jenner is being “begged” by designers to wear their clothes

Loads of important designers are fighting over Caitlyn Jenner, eager for her to wear their pieces for her first red carpet appearance at the ESPY ... «Cosmopolitan, Jun 15»