Past tense of honk
regular verb
The past tense of honk is honked. The past participle is also honked.
Forms of honk
| Base form (V1) | honk /hɒŋk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | honked |
| Past participle (V3) | honked |
| Present participle | honking |
| Third person singular | honks |
Honked in a sentence
- She honked my titties.
- A rasp of guinea fowl honked as 'Emma' the ostrich pecked.2025, Rory MacLean, Nick Danziger, Back in the USSR. From the entry rasp
- He had a Harpo bulbhorn he honked as people came by.2005, Waldrop, Howard, Heart of Whitenesse, Subterranean Press, page 180. From the entry bulbhorn
- The carbrain honked and started the engine when the clock reached 00:30.1992, James Patrick Kelly, “Pogrom”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, page 429. From the entry carbrain
- I honked the horn and flickered the lights as a bat signal for my mom to save me.2022, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams. From the entry Bat-Signal
Meaning of honk
- verb To use a car horn.
- verb To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
- verb To make the vocal sound of a goose.
Questions about the past tense of honk
- What is the past tense of honk?
- The past tense of honk is honked.
- What is the past participle of honk?
- The past participle of honk is honked.
- Is honk a regular or irregular verb?
- Honk is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: honk (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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