Past tense of wing
regular verb
The past tense of wing is winged. The past participle is also winged.
Forms of wing
| Base form (V1) | wing /wɪŋ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | winged /wɪŋɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | winged /wɪŋɪd/ |
| Present participle | winging /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | wings /wɪŋz/ |
Less standard forms: wung (colloquial).
Winged in a sentence
- Winged helicopter seeds fall with rapid flutters to the ground.From the entry flutter
- Some heterogynous insects have winged males and wingless females.From the entry heterogynous
- In general, dolmans are recognizable for their winged kimono-like sleeves and T shape.2011, Lisa Shroyer, “The Dolman Sweater”, in Knitting Plus: Mastering Fit + Plus-Size Style + 15 Projects, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave…. From the entry dolman
- In reality, Collectors are human-sized insectoid bipeds and can resemble massive winged beetles.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collectors Codex entry. From the entry myth
- The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 220b. From the entry wildfowl
Meaning of wing
- noun An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- noun A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- noun Human arm.
Questions about the past tense of wing
- What is the past tense of wing?
- The past tense of wing is winged.
- What is the past participle of wing?
- The past participle of wing is winged.
- Is wing a regular or irregular verb?
- Wing is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
- Is wung correct?
- wung is marked colloquial in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of wing is winged.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wing (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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