Past tense of finance
regular verb
The past tense of finance is financed. The past participle is also financed.
Forms of finance
| Base form (V1) | finance /fɪˈnæns/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | financed |
| Past participle (V3) | financed |
| Present participle | financing /ˈfaɪnænsɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | finances /ˈfaɪ.næn.sɪz/ |
Financed in a sentence
- His parents financed his college education.
- He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
- The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.From the entry zero
- Orban said on state radio this month, referring to the philanthropic Open Society Foundations financed by Mr.2017 June 13, Helene Bienvenu, Palko Karasz, “In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups”, in The New York Times…. From the entry agentlike
- We now have thousands upon thousands of tiny movies made on microbudgets, financed with personal credit cards.2013, Lynda Obst, Sleepless in Hollywood, page 45. From the entry microbudget
Meaning of finance
- noun The management of money and other assets.
- noun The science of management of money and other assets.
- noun Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
Questions about the past tense of finance
- What is the past tense of finance?
- The past tense of finance is financed.
- What is the past participle of finance?
- The past participle of finance is financed.
- Is finance a regular or irregular verb?
- Finance is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: finance (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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