Past tense of portend
regular verb
The past tense of portend is portended. The past participle is also portended.
Forms of portend
| Base form (V1) | portend /pɔːˈtɛnd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | portended |
| Past participle (V3) | portended |
| Present participle | portending |
| Third person singular | portends |
Portended in a sentence
- To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass-produced boys.2010 July, Hanna Rosin, “The End of Men”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sperminator
Meaning of portend
- verb To serve as a warning or omen of.
- verb To signify; to denote.
Questions about the past tense of portend
- What is the past tense of portend?
- The past tense of portend is portended.
- What is the past participle of portend?
- The past participle of portend is portended.
- Is portend a regular or irregular verb?
- Portend is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: portend (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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