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gerns

gerns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gern.

Meaning of gern

Verb

gern (third-person singular simple present gerns, present participle gerning, simple past and past participle gerned)

  1. (obsolete) To grin.
  2. (obsolete) To yawn.
    • [He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13

Questions about gerns

What is gerns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gerns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gern.

Words near gerns in the dictionary

  1. Gerner
  2. Gerners
  3. Gernert
  4. Gernerts
  5. gerning
  6. gerns
  7. Gernsbackian
  8. Gernsheim
  9. Gero
  10. gero-
  11. gerocomia

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