different between conversing vs conversate

English

Pronunciation

Verb

conversing

1. present participle of converse

Noun

conversing (plural conversings)

1. conversation
   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, s:Uncle Tom's Cabin

     Have you not, in your own secret souls, in your own private conversings, felt that there are woes and evils, in this accursed system, far beyond what are here shadowed, or can be shadowed?

Anagrams

• conserving

English

Etymology

Back-formation from conversation.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /?k??n.v??se?t/

Verb

conversate (third-person singular simple present conversates, present participle conversating, simple past and past participle conversated)

1. (now chiefly African-American Vernacular, nonstandard) To converse, to have conversation.
   • 2002, Gail L. Thompson, African-American Teens Discuss Their Schooling Experiences, Bergin Garvey/Greenwood, page 34:

     We don't just want to go to class and not conversate with the teachers.

   • 2003, Steven Travers, Barry Bonds: Baseballs Superman, Sports Publishing LLC, page 241:

     Barry did grow up in a white neighborhood, you know, and he does know how to conversate, and he does know how to pronounce his vowels, he knows how to talk.

   • 2005, Prudence L. Carter, Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Oxford University Press, page 37:

     I'll talk to them and conversate, but I won't pay no mind to the things that they do.

Usage notes

• This verb is considered incorrect by some authorities. By contrast, the common verb converse is universally accepted.

References

• “conversate”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “conversate”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• conservate, convertase

Italian

Verb

conversate

1. second-person plural indicative present of conversare
2. second-person plural imperative of conversare

Anagrams

• conservate

Latin

Verb

convers?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of convers?