Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hone
Participle: honed
Gerund: honing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hone |
| you | hone |
| he;she;it | hones |
| we | hone |
| you | hone |
| they | hone |
Perfect
| I | have honed |
| you | have honed |
| he;she;it | has honed |
| we | have honed |
| you | have honed |
| they | have honed |
Past
| I | honed |
| you | honed |
| he;she;it | honed |
| we | honed |
| you | honed |
| they | honed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honed |
| you | had honed |
| he;she;it | had honed |
| we | had honed |
| you | had honed |
| they | had honed |
Future
| I | will hone |
| you | will hone |
| he;she;it | will hone |
| we | will hone |
| you | will hone |
| they | will hone |
Future Perfect
| I | will have honed |
| you | will have honed |
| he;she;it | will have honed |
| we | will have honed |
| you | will have honed |
| they | will have honed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hone |
| you | hone |
| he;she;it | hone |
| we | hone |
| you | hone |
| they | hone |
Perfect
| I | have honed |
| you | have honed |
| he;she;it | have honed |
| we | have honed |
| you | have honed |
| they | have honed |
Imperfect
| I | honed |
| you | honed |
| he;she;it | honed |
| we | honed |
| you | honed |
| they | honed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honed |
| you | had honed |
| he;she;it | had honed |
| we | had honed |
| you | had honed |
| they | had honed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hone |
| you | would hone |
| he;she;it | would hone |
| we | would hone |
| you | would hone |
| they | would hone |
Perfect
| I | would have honed |
| you | would have honed |
| he;she;it | would have honed |
| we | would have honed |
| you | would have honed |
| they | would have honed |
Imperative
| you | hone |
| we | Let's hone |
| you | hone |
Verbs conjugated like 'hone'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hone'
bone,
cone,
hode,
hoe,
hoke,
hole,
home,
honey,
hong,
honk,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)). See: Dutch '
heen'.
Verbs referencing "hone"
Albanian
thyej, Finnish with old forms
hoonata.
Sample Sentences
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He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments. [2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56:]
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Huh? Training in your room under the torchlight / Hone that form to get you ready for the big fight [2011, “Revenge”, CaptainSparklez (lyrics), Doc Exx (music), performed by TryHardNinja, parody of Usher's DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love:]