Past tense of malfunction
regular verb
The past tense of malfunction is malfunctioned. The past participle is also malfunctioned.
Forms of malfunction
| Base form (V1) | malfunction /ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | malfunctioned |
| Past participle (V3) | malfunctioned |
| Present participle | malfunctioning |
| Third person singular | malfunctions |
Malfunctioned in a sentence
- She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned.
- Due to a communications error, according to gaming officials, the slot machine malfunctioned and didn’t notify Taylor or casino personnel that he was a winner.2022 February 6, Amanda Jackson, “A slot machine in Las Vegas malfunctioned and didn’t tell a tourist he won. The gaming board tracked him...
- Luckily, the cannoneer was only mildly injured when his cannon malfunctioned.From the entry cannoneer
- During Cytherocentric orbit insertion, Akatsuki malfunctioned and failed to enter orbit.2019, Kattakuri, Vikranth R., Failures in Spacecraft Systems: An Analysis from the Perspective of Decision Making, West Lafayette…. From the entry cytherocentric
Meaning of malfunction
- noun Faulty functioning.
- noun Failure to function.
- verb To function improperly.
Questions about the past tense of malfunction
- What is the past tense of malfunction?
- The past tense of malfunction is malfunctioned.
- What is the past participle of malfunction?
- The past participle of malfunction is malfunctioned.
- Is malfunction a regular or irregular verb?
- Malfunction is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: malfunction (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.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of malfunction.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/malfunction. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.