Past tense of corn
regular verb
The past tense of corn is corned. The past participle is also corned.
Forms of corn
| Base form (V1) | corn /ˈkɔːn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | corned |
| Past participle (V3) | corned |
| Present participle | corning |
| Third person singular | corns |
Corned in a sentence
- My wife and I made tamales stuffed with corned beef cooked in Guinness.2009 April/May, Jim Ruland, “Tribute to J. J. Orsborn”, in Razorcake, number 49, Los Angeles, C.A.: Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc., page 32…. From the entry blustrification
- Next day he corned Chum Frink and crowed, "Well, old son, I finished it last evening!1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry lam out
- Example: “I shared some corned beef hash that nudiustertian morning.”2015 August 21, “Jaffe Morning Briefing”, in NJTV, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015. From the entry nudiustertian
- Barrels were big business, used for containers of about everything, from fish peas to corned hake, and even rum.2001 April 13, John Gould, “Hay inspectors, hog reeves, and other essential jobs”, in The Christian Science Monitor, retrieved 25 Jan 2023. From the entry pipestave
- She'd linger by the Pepto-Bismol display, or she'd buy tons of cans of something vomitrocious like corned beef hash.1997, Jamie Suzanne, Big Brother's in Love Again, Random House, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry vomitrocious
Meaning of corn
- noun Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- noun Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- noun A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
Questions about the past tense of corn
- What is the past tense of corn?
- The past tense of corn is corned.
- What is the past participle of corn?
- The past participle of corn is corned.
- Is corn a regular or irregular verb?
- Corn is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: corn (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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