yearn

Other forms of yearn

past tense

yearned·

present participle

yearning·

third person

yearns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yearn

What does yearn mean?

yearn means "desire strongly or persistently". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yearn?

yearn has 1 syllable: yearn. In IPA it is /ˈjɝn/.

What is another word for yearn?

Close synonyms include hanker, long, ache, yen, pine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yearn a common word?

yearn is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.