lightninged
SayLYT-ningd/ˈlaɪt.nɪŋd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of lightning.
"It lightninged twice!" the four-year-old shouted, pressing her nose to the glass.
"It's lightninged three times since dinner, Dad, so can we stay inside?"
Note
Children make a verb of the storm word by adding -ed straight onto lightning, with the empty it of weather verbs as subject, as in it rained: it lightninged, it has lightninged. Because the verb counts as nonstandard, adult speech and writing reach for there was lightning or lightning flashed instead; in a child's quoted words, though, the form rings true.
lightninged is a form of lightning
lightning, verb: To produce lightning; used impersonally, with it as the subject. Full entry
- Forms
- lightninglightnings he/she/itlightninging -ing formlightninged past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- lightning → lightninged: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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