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Past tense of gender

regular verb

The past tense of gender is gendered. The past participle is also gendered.

Forms of gender

Base form (V1)gender /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
Past tense (V2)gendered /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
Past participle (V3)gendered /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
Present participlegendering
Third person singulargenders

Gendered in a sentence

  • Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.1997, Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, page 120
  • “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”2019 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, in New York Times
  • Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.From the entry gendered
  • In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles.From the entry gendered
  • These gendered constructions of subjecthood are explored in more detail in Chapter two of this book.From the entry subjecthood

Meaning of gender

  1. noun Class; kind.
  2. noun Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
  3. noun Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.).

Full definition of gender

Questions about the past tense of gender

What is the past tense of gender?
The past tense of gender is gendered.
What is the past participle of gender?
The past participle of gender is gendered.
Is gender a regular or irregular verb?
Gender is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gender (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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