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Past tense of ding

regular verb

The past tense of ding is dinged. The past participle is also dinged.

Forms of ding

Base form (V1)ding /dɪŋ/
Past tense (V2)dinged /dɪŋd/
Past participle (V3)dinged /dɪŋd/
Present participledinging
Third person singulardings

Dinged in a sentence

  • His top school dinged him last week.
  • My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
  • The teacher dinged me for not showing my work.From the entry show one's work
  • He double tapped a couple of others to add the extras and the comm dinged once it registered the final selection.2020 June 27, Chad V. Holtkamp, The Spook & Goon Space Adventures Series: Missions 4-6 (The SPOOK & GOON Space Adventures Series Boxset)…. From the entry double tap
  • But Maue has dinged Trump administration officials as well—notably those who were involved in a mini-scandal known as "Sharpiegate."2020 September 22, Scott Waldman, “Climate science critic to be chief scientist at key U.S. climate research agency”, in Science. From the entry Sharpiegate

Meaning of ding

  1. noun Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
  2. noun A rejection.
  3. verb To hit or strike.

Full definition of ding

Questions about the past tense of ding

What is the past tense of ding?
The past tense of ding is dinged.
What is the past participle of ding?
The past participle of ding is dinged.
Is ding a regular or irregular verb?
Ding is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ding (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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