Past tense of hover
regular verb
The past tense of hover is hovered. The past participle is also hovered.
Forms of hover
| Base form (V1) | hover /ˈhɒvə/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | hovered |
| Past participle (V3) | hovered |
| Present participle | hovering |
| Third person singular | hovers |
Hovered in a sentence
- The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
- His pen hovered above the paper.
- The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.From the entry vein
- The gyrocabbie, wide-eyed, gazed after his fares for a moment, then hovered upward and away.1951, Isaac Asimov, “Hostess”, in Nightfall and Other Stories, Green City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1969, page 76. From the entry gyrocab
- Those haggard hands which hovered, eaglesque, over the world, met with no check.1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xiii. 116. From the entry eaglesque
Meaning of hover
- verb To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- verb Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- verb Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
Questions about the past tense of hover
- What is the past tense of hover?
- The past tense of hover is hovered.
- What is the past participle of hover?
- The past participle of hover is hovered.
- Is hover a regular or irregular verb?
- Hover is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hover (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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