Meaning of "sympathise" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SYMPATHISE

sympathise  [ˈsɪmpəθaɪz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SYMPATHISE

Sympathise 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 sympathise in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SYMPATHISE

PRESENT

Present

I sympathise

you sympathise

he/she/it sympathises

we sympathise

you sympathise

they sympathise

Present continuous

I am sympathising

you are sympathising

he/she/it is sympathising

we are sympathising

you are sympathising

they are sympathising

Present perfect

I have sympathised

you have sympathised

he/she/it has sympathised

we have sympathised

you have sympathised

they have sympathised

Present perfect continuous

I have been sympathising

you have been sympathising

he/she/it has been sympathising

we have been sympathising

you have been sympathising

they have been sympathising

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 sympathised

you sympathised

he/she/it sympathised

we sympathised

you sympathised

they sympathised

Past continuous

I was sympathising

you were sympathising

he/she/it was sympathising

we were sympathising

you were sympathising

they were sympathising

Past perfect

I had sympathised

you had sympathised

he/she/it had sympathised

we had sympathised

you had sympathised

they had sympathised

Past perfect continuous

I had been sympathising

you had been sympathising

he/she/it had been sympathising

we had been sympathising

you had been sympathising

they had been sympathising

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

FUTURE

Future

I will sympathise

you will sympathise

he/she/it will sympathise

we will sympathise

you will sympathise

they will sympathise

Future continuous

I will be sympathising

you will be sympathising

he/she/it will be sympathising

we will be sympathising

you will be sympathising

they will be sympathising

Future perfect

I will have sympathised

you will have sympathised

he/she/it will have sympathised

we will have sympathised

you will have sympathised

they will have sympathised

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sympathising

you will have been sympathising

he/she/it will have been sympathising

we will have been sympathising

you will have been sympathising

they will have been sympathising

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

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sympathise

you would sympathise

he/she/it would sympathise

we would sympathise

you would sympathise

they would sympathise

Conditional continuous

I would be sympathising

you would be sympathising

he/she/it would be sympathising

we would be sympathising

you would be sympathising

they would be sympathising

Conditional perfect

I would have sympathise

you would have sympathise

he/she/it would have sympathise

we would have sympathise

you would have sympathise

they would have sympathise

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sympathising

you would have been sympathising

he/she/it would have been sympathising

we would have been sympathising

you would have been sympathising

they would have been sympathising

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sympathise
we let´s sympathise
you sympathise

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sympathise

Past participle

sympathised

Present Participle

sympathising

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.

TRANSLATION OF SYMPATHISE

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

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

• Translator English - Chinese: 同情
• Translator English - Spanish: simpatizar
• English: sympathise
• Translator English - Hindi: हमदर्दी
• Translator English - Arabic: أتعاطف
• Translator English - Russian: сочувствую
• Translator English - Portuguese: simpatizar
• Translator English - Bengali: সহানুভূতি প্রকাশ করা
• Translator English - French: sympathiser
• Translator English - Malay: Simpati
• Translator English - German: mitfühlen
• Translator English - Japanese: 同情する
• Translator English - Korean: 공감
• Translator English - Javanese: Simpati
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thông cảm
• Translator English - Tamil: பரிதாபப்பட
• Translator English - Marathi: सहानुभूती वाटणे
• Translator English - Turkish: yakınlık duymak
• Translator English - Italian: simpatizzare
• Translator English - Polish: współczuć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: співчуваю
• Translator English - Romanian: simpatizează
• Translator English - Greek: συμπάθεια
• Translator English - Afrikaans: simpatiseer
• Translator English - Swedish: sympatiserar
• Translator English - Norwegian: sympatisere

6 QUOTES WITH «SYMPATHISE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sympathise.

1

Sebastian Faulks

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

2

Ronald Frame

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.

3

Felicity Kendal

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

4

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

5

Ed Miliband

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

6

Chris O'Dowd

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYMPATHISE»

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

A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning

663.22 R. and B. 1.1085 Sympathise. In ill-success; to sympathise, be proud 64.80 Paraccl-tis 5.876 I must have a woman that can sympathise with, and appreciate me 410. 121 Soul'sTrag. 2.334 And you object that a large nature should ...

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Reading the Visuals in the Middle Years

Our desire to keep watching a narrative is driven by our desire to see the characters that we sympathise with succeed and to see the characters that we dislike fail. If we do not care about the characters we lose interest in the outcome of the ...

Rod Quin, 2005

“Prayer the only true relief for the afflicted.” A sermon ...

Pity me; Goal can alone sympathise with me l” Yes, my dear hearers, GOD can alone sympathise with us. He who knoweth all the “secrets of the heart,” can sympathise with us. He who hath known all of human anguish and sorrow, can ...

Sanford J. HORTON, 1850

The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels

Do they sympathise — " "But do you sympathise with them?" said Connie. "Eh? What? Sympathise with them} Who?" "The upper classes. Do you sympathise with them?" 25 "What for? They don't want sympathy. They've got everything.

D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl, Christa Jansohn, 2002

Once a Week

They sympathise with one another, no doubt, because they are the double one of the other; but to all the world besides they may be unfeeling brutes— in a word, unsympathetic. But if this view of sympathy be accepted, it saves me very much ...

‎1868

The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support

But that he might become a merciful and compassionate High Priest he had to learn sympathy with his people in a very different way. In the wondrous depths of the wisdom and grace of God, he learnt to sympathise with us in our afflictions by a ...

‎1859

Exchange and Deception: A Feminist Perspective

or its equivalent; and when we sympathise with another's feelings in this way, we come to approve of them. Smith made two important observations about these sympathetic feelings. First there are certain biases with respect to what kinds of ...

Caroline Gerschlager, Monika Mokre, 2002

Legacy of Soviet Dissent

Pharisee! [noise in the hall].... KOVALYOV: I deeply sympathise with you over the death of your relatives in Grozny. BURLAKOV: Don't sympathise with me, answer the question! Don't sympathise, Pharisee! KOVALYOV: Stop shouting! [noise in ...

Robert Horvath, 2013

A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including Intermitting, ...

Dr. Monro, who has paid more attention to this subject than most other authors, was led, by many observations, .to this conclusion, " That, in general, the nerves, of the body sympathise, not from their connexion in their progress, but from their ...

Alexander Philips Wilson Philip, 1804

Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments

The inhabitant of a highly civilised community will more acutely sympathise with the sufferings and enjoyments of others, than the inhabitant of a society of a less degree of civilisation. He who shall have cultivated his intellectual powers by ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1845

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYMPATHISE»

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

'Duck Dynasty' stars sympathise with victims of Lafayette theatre …

Willie Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty' offers his prayers and sympathies to the victims of the Lafayette theatre shooting. 'We should be able to see a movie and ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»

Why I Sympathise With Shenmue III's Most Hardcore Fans

One day in late 2013, I woke up to dozens of emails and Twitter messages from people with accounts like “@Shenmue5K” and “@SaveShenmue”. They wanted ... «Kotaku Australia, Jul 15»

Heather Wheeler: I sympathise with residents who are angry with …

SINCE I last wrote in the Telegraph, I have been re-elected as the Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire and I want to say a huge thank you to the voters ... «Derby Telegraph, Jun 15»

'I sympathise with them', says husband of woman injured in Bromley …

Following reports of a carjacking in Trinity Street, police chased a Mini to Bromley Cross, where it ploughed into a Parcel Force van and flipped onto the roof of ... «The Bolton News, Jun 15»

The sketchwriters who saw Charles Kennedy didn't sympathise

The sketchwriters who saw Charles Kennedy didn't sympathise. Peter Preston. The media that paid such tribute to the late Lib Dem leader was merciless in its ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

Victims sympathise after owner of sheep-killing dogs is sentenced

“It will have been traumatic for her as well as us, so we do sympathise with her. She was very remorseful when my husband went to see her a few days after it ... «Louth Leader, Jun 15»

Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell: 'Kevin will sympathise with Jenny'

Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell has said that his character Kevin Webster will sympathise with troubled Jenny Bradley when he learns about her tragic ... «Digital Spy UK, May 15»

Pictures: 'We must sympathise with vendors'

Manyenyeni said council should sympathise with vendors as their coming into the city centre was not out of choice, but failure by central government to address ... «NewsDay, May 15»

I do sympathise with Buhari

However, in the midst of the euphoria over Buhari's victory and his mounting of the saddle on May 29, one cannot help but sympathise with the incoming ... «Daily Sun, May 15»

Revenge of the fifth: 11 reasons you sympathise more with Darth …

May 4 was Star Wars Day, when the planet united in celebration of the space opera extraordinaire, and everyone secretly (or not so secretly) wishes they were a ... «Metro, May 15»