Past tense of tongue
regular verb
The past tense of tongue is tongued. The past participle is also tongued.
Forms of tongue
| Base form (V1) | tongue /tʌŋ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | tongued /tʌŋd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | tongued /tʌŋd/ |
| Present participle | tonguing |
| Third person singular | tongues /tʌŋz/ |
Tongued in a sentence
- Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.From the entry fix
- Tongued and grooved boards ⅝ in. thick form the underdrawing for the roof.1950 September, “Fish Vans for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 583. From the entry underdrawing
- A darkly toned short story collection from the Japanese underground writer about a series of spiky tongued, bad girl narrators whose lives are hilariously altered by supernatural occurrences.2024 March 6, Agnès Houghton-Boyle, “CAHYATI IN CONVERSATION: MEET THE TEAM BEHIND BALI'S BOLDEST PRRINTMAKERS”, in Fetch.London, archived…. From the entry blondster
Meaning of tongue
- noun The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- noun Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- noun Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
Questions about the past tense of tongue
- What is the past tense of tongue?
- The past tense of tongue is tongued.
- What is the past participle of tongue?
- The past participle of tongue is tongued.
- Is tongue a regular or irregular verb?
- Tongue is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tongue (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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