Past tense of orphan
regular verb
The past tense of orphan is orphaned. The past participle is also orphaned.
Forms of orphan
| Base form (V1) | orphan /ˈɔːfən/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | orphaned |
| Past participle (V3) | orphaned |
| Present participle | orphaning |
| Third person singular | orphans |
Orphaned in a sentence
- What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
- When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
- I found an orphaned project, half-completed before its author quit, and decided to finish it.From the entry orphaned
- Marjorie handfeeds one of her many pets, an orphaned joey, at Campbell Town.2011, Danielle Wood, Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh, page 97. From the entry handfeed
- Orphaned at a young age, he found a father figure in the confident and committed al-Bahri.2008 July 21, Jonathan Mahler, “Hamdan: Guantánamo's Mystery Man”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jul 2014. From the entry father figure
Meaning of orphan
- noun A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- noun A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- noun A young animal with no mother.
Questions about the past tense of orphan
- What is the past tense of orphan?
- The past tense of orphan is orphaned.
- What is the past participle of orphan?
- The past participle of orphan is orphaned.
- Is orphan a regular or irregular verb?
- Orphan is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: orphan (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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