Past tense of spend
irregular verb
The past tense of spend is spent. The past participle is also spent.
Forms of spend
| Base form (V1) | spend /spɛnd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | spent /spɛnt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | spent /spɛnt/ |
| Present participle | spending /ˈspɛndɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | spends |
Spent in a sentence
- I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
- We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- We could've spent today at the seaside if it weren't gusty.From the entry today
- I spent most time in Rome because most of Venice is flooded.From the entry most
- They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.From the entry stand
Meaning of spend
- verb To pay out (money).
- verb To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- verb To squander.
Verbs like spend
Questions about the past tense of spend
- What is the past tense of spend?
- The past tense of spend is spent.
- What is the past participle of spend?
- The past participle of spend is spent.
- Is spend a regular or irregular verb?
- Spend is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spend (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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