what is the different between hung and hanged? and where do u use em?

Question

Are they not the same thing?!

Answer 1

<>While they are both past tenses of hang, hung can refer to anything, animate or inanimate: e.g.: The picture was hung in the hallway. or The criminal was hung at midnight. Hanged is primarily used as a term of corporal punishment, either past or future tense: e.g.: The criminal was hanged at midnight. or You shall be hanged by the neck until dead.

Answer 2

For Hang, Hanged, Hung

One hangs a picture, a criminal or oneself.
For past tense or the passive, use hanged when referring to executions or suicides, hung for other actions.

Answer 3

"Hanged" always refers to somebody being strung up by a rope from their neck, like execution. Nobody is ever "hung" by their neck. Anybody who mentions the form of execution and uses the word "hung" is using the word incorrectly. It is always "hanged".
Pictures are "hung" on a wall. They are never "hanged" on a wall. "Hung" is used for just about every other object suspended from a rope or hook.

Answer 4

Saddam may have hung his head when told that he was to be hanged on orders of the American puppets. He didn't but it does show use of the two words.

Answer 5

Hung is usually used when unable to decide like, 'hung jury'

It's an intransitive verb. It can also be used as an alternative to hanged, i.e.suspend, kill by suspending, attach, set up (such as wallpaper, or doors)

Answer 6

Simple way to remember the difference.... pictures (objects) are hung, and people are hanged (executed).
So Saddam Hussain will be hanged, but his collection of pictures will be hung.

Answer 7

They are both the same thing (past tense of to hang)
Hung can be used in any sense of hang but you commonly use use hanged when meaning:

- has been put to death by suspending by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, yardarm, or the like.

- have suspended (oneself) by the neck until dead: "He hanged himself from a beam in the attic."

- (in mild curses and emphatic expressions, often as a euphemism for damn): "I'll be hanged if I do. Hanged if I don't." "Hang it all!"

- to have been suspended by the neck, as from a gallows, and suffer death in this way.

Answer 8

So long as they put the noose round his neck and then let the floor drop away by February, who gives a monkeys' what you call it ! ! !
I think while it's happening you being hanged, and when it's all over, you've been hung. In other words, they're present and past tenses of the verb "to hang"

Answer 9

hung

VERB:

Past tense and a past participle of hang. See Usage Note at hang.
ADJECTIVE:

Vulgar Slang Having large genitals. Used of males.
Slang
Anxious; nervous.
Overly involved or preoccupied; hung up.


hanged (hngd) KEY

VERB:

Past tense and past participle of hang. See Usage Note at hang.
past tense and past participle hanged (hngd) KEY
To execute by suspending by the neck: They hanged the prisoner at dawn.
Used to express exasperation or disgust: I'll be hanged! Hang it all!


both are correct.

Answer 10

Murderers are hanged. Clothes are hung.

Actually murderers can be hung as well. Clothes can't be hanged, though!