Past tense of reckon
regular verb
The past tense of reckon is reckoned. The past participle is also reckoned.
Forms of reckon
| Base form (V1) | reckon /ˈɹɛkən/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | reckoned /ˈɹɛkənd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | reckoned /ˈɹɛkənd/ |
| Present participle | reckoning /ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | reckons |
Reckoned in a sentence
- I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
- The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 250
- He reckoned the distance without any instruments or maps with surprising accuracy.From the entry reckon without
- Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.From the entry citizen
- I reckoned on my pension being enough.From the entry reckon on
Meaning of reckon
- verb To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- verb To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- verb To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
Questions about the past tense of reckon
- What is the past tense of reckon?
- The past tense of reckon is reckoned.
- What is the past participle of reckon?
- The past participle of reckon is reckoned.
- Is reckon a regular or irregular verb?
- Reckon is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reckon (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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