Affect

//əˈfɛkt//

Word Forms of "affect" (22 forms)

Noun

Form	Word
Plural	affects

Verb

Form	Word
Archaic, Past, Second-Person, Singular	affectedst
Archaic, Present, Second-Person, Singular	affectest
Archaic, Present, Singular, Third-Person	affecteth
First-Person, Past, Singular	affected
Inflection-Template	glossary
Participle, Past	affected
Participle, Past	affected
Participle, Past	affected
Participle, Present	affecting
Participle, Present	affecting
Participle, Present	affecting
Past	affected
Past	affected
Past, Plural	affected
Past, Second-Person, Singular	affected
Past, Singular, Third-Person	affected
Past, Subjunctive	affected
Present, Singular, Third-Person	affects
Present, Singular, Third-Person	affects
Present, Singular, Third-Person	affects
Table-Tags	no-table-tags

Archaic, Past, Second-Person, Singularaffectedst

Archaic, Present, Second-Person, Singularaffectest

Archaic, Present, Singular, Third-Personaffecteth

First-Person, Past, Singularaffected

Inflection-Templateglossary

Participle, Pastaffected

Participle, Presentaffecting

Past, Pluralaffected

Past, Second-Person, Singularaffected

Past, Singular, Third-Personaffected

Past, Subjunctiveaffected

Present, Singular, Third-Personaffects

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.