Past tense of foreshadow
regular verb
The past tense of foreshadow is foreshadowed. The past participle is also foreshadowed.
Forms of foreshadow
| Base form (V1) | foreshadow /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | foreshadowed |
| Past participle (V3) | foreshadowed |
| Present participle | foreshadowing /(ˌ)fɔːˈʃædəʊɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | foreshadows |
Foreshadowed in a sentence
- If there is a significant or surprising event in the story, it must be foreshadowed earlier on.2013, Heide Goody, Iain Grant, “The Novel Writing Process”, in How to Write a Collaborative Novel, [Birmingham, West Midlands]: Pigeon Park...
- Earlier work like the atonal music of pianist Sun Ra and bassist Charles Mingus as well as the chordless music of Coleman and Taylor foreshadowed free jazz.2009, Waldo E. Martin, No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America, page 62. From the entry chordless
- This is not a democratic program but a romantic antidystopian one, the sort of thing that is already foreshadowed in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground and various back-to-nature ideologies.2009, David M. Kaplan, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, page 140. From the entry antidystopian
Meaning of foreshadow
- verb To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
- verb Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
- noun A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
Questions about the past tense of foreshadow
- What is the past tense of foreshadow?
- The past tense of foreshadow is foreshadowed.
- What is the past participle of foreshadow?
- The past participle of foreshadow is foreshadowed.
- Is foreshadow a regular or irregular verb?
- Foreshadow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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