Verb slay in past tense?????
I have looked at many sites and asked many people how you say slay in past tense but I always get different answers. How is it????? I want to put it in the sentence She *sla---* dragons, she caught vandals....
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It's "slew". "Slain" is the past participle (used with perfect tenses in constructions like "had slain").
"Slay" is one of those very old and horribly irregular verbs left over from the Old English days before the 11th century or so. It was originally "slean", and the past and past participle forms were "sloh" and "slagen". The pronunciation and conjugation have changed a bit, but it's still basically the same word.
Slay Past Tense
Past Tense Of Slay
verb slay tense
Slew is the past tense of slay. Or you could say has slain.
slain.... in your sentence it would be she slays dragons..but you could say she has slain dragons..which is past tense or you could even say she is a dragon slayer...the problem with using slew is that normally it is a whole slew of something..most people will assume its wrong..go to dictionary.com for the def and it will list all the tense's of the word as well...
Slain, or slew.
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slain... and it would read she has slain... or they have slain...