Meaning

1 senses

  1. To apply a downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.

Forms

downsteps, downstepping, downstepped, downstepped
Base formdownstep · to downstep
3rd person singulardownsteps
Present participledownstepping
Past simpledownstepped
Past participledownstepped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydownstep
he, she, itdownsteps

Past simpleLesson

all personsdownstepped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave downstepped
he, she, ithas downstepped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill downstep

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcatathesisupstep

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
downsizeB2downstairsB1downstreamdowntime
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