Past tense of smarten
regular verb
The past tense of smarten is smartened. The past participle is also smartened.
Forms of smarten
| Base form (V1) | smarten /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | smartened |
| Past participle (V3) | smartened |
| Present participle | smartening |
| Third person singular | smartens |
Smartened in a sentence
- I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake, page 264
Meaning of smarten
- verb To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
- verb To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).
- verb To augment with computer technology.
Questions about the past tense of smarten
- What is the past tense of smarten?
- The past tense of smarten is smartened.
- What is the past participle of smarten?
- The past participle of smarten is smartened.
- Is smarten a regular or irregular verb?
- Smarten is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: smarten (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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