Past tense of hang
irregular verb
The past tense of hang is hung or hanged. The past participle is also hung or hanged.
Forms of hang
| Base form (V1) | hang /hæŋ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | hung /ˈhʌŋ/ hanged /ˈhæŋd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | hung /ˈhʌŋ/ hanged /ˈhæŋd/ |
| Present participle | hanging /ˈhæŋɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | hangs |
Hung and hanged in a sentence
- The lights hung from the ceiling.
- On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The...
- I wrung out my wet jeans and hung them out to dry.From the entry wrung
- The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.From the entry house
- We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.From the entry booze
Meaning of hang
- verb To be or remain suspended.
- verb To float, as if suspended.
- verb To veer in one direction.
Verbs like hang
Questions about the past tense of hang
- What is the past tense of hang?
- The past tense of hang is hung or hanged.
- What is the past participle of hang?
- The past participle of hang is hung or hanged.
- Is hang a regular or irregular verb?
- Hang is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hang (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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