What is the past tense of "shine"?

Question

Sometimes I see "shone" and sometimes I see "shined". Which one is correct?

Answer 1

I think it depends on the usage: if you mean that light is emitted or reflected, it is shone, i.e. The sun shone, the shoes shone. if you mean that an action is performed to make something more shiny, it is shined; i.e. he shined the car and it shone.

I don't think you would ever say "he shone his shoes" or "he shone the car".

JMHO

Answer 2

Shine Past Tense

Answer 3

Past Tense Of Shine

Answer 4

Past tense, passive voice of the verb to shine - light was SHONE on the scene

Past tense, active voice, transitive use of verb to shine - he SHINED / SHONE a light on the scene

Past tense, passive voice (of the transitive verb to shine) - light was SHONE on the scene
Past tense, transitive verb to shine - he SHINED/SHONE a light on the scene
Past tense, intransitive verb to shine - the sun SHONE on the scene

How irregular can you get, but does it shed any light? Shine a light!
How irregular can you get?

Answer 5

Shone. "The Rose Petal "Shone," as bright as the Morning Dew...

Answer 6

Either is correct in most circumstances.

However, you would say that you shined your shoes rather than that you shone your shoes.
Or you would have shined on somebody if you were lying to him,
or if you were trying to gain his favor.

Answer 7

Irregular verb, but shone. Common usage though would be shined.
shine shone

Answer 8

Yeah, it's "shone".
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http://www.verb2verbe.com/

Answer 9

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False. This requires a very long explanation, but bottom line, "musted" is not a word.

Answer 10

shone, though sometimes shined is acceptable.