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Past tense of pan

regular verb

The past tense of pan is panned. The past participle is also panned.

Forms of pan

Base form (V1)pan /pæn/
Past tense (V2)panned /pænd/
Past participle (V3)panned /pænd/
Present participlepanning /ˈpænɪŋ/
Third person singularpans /pænz/

Panned in a sentence

  • Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.2022 May 17, Tiffany Hsu, “All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots1963, Grower Talks
  • In the full-screen version of Star Wars Episode II, only Anakin and Obi-Wan appear in the scene because Padmé was panned and scanned out.From the entry pan and scan
  • “It's a psychic, capable of spying, using out-of-body experiences, stuff like that,” Van Pelt dead panned.2003, Walker O'Brien, The Empire of the Dead, page 81. From the entry dead pan
  • "Well, that explains everything," Zippy dead panned.2004, Lisa Ray Turner, The Maybe Saint, page 121. From the entry dead pan

Meaning of pan

  1. noun A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. noun The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. noun A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

Full definition of pan

Questions about the past tense of pan

What is the past tense of pan?
The past tense of pan is panned.
What is the past participle of pan?
The past participle of pan is panned.
Is pan a regular or irregular verb?
Pan is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pan (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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