shoe
Base form
shoe
/ʃuː/
Past simple
shodshod / shoed
/ʃɒd//ʃɑːd/ /ʃuːd/
Past participle
shodshod / shoed
/ʃɒd//ʃɑːd/ /ʃuːd/
MeaningC2
to put horseshoes on a horse
a blacksmith shoes horses
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1The blacksmith will shoe the horses tomorrow morning.
- Question · Form 1How often do you shoe a riding horse?
- Past simple · Form 2Last week the farrier shod all four of our ponies.
- Past simple · Form 2In the old days, the village blacksmith shod every horse in the area.
- Passive · Form 3The horse was shod just before the race.
- Past perfect · Form 3Nobody had shod the old mare for years.
Watch out
Shod /ʃɒd/ in both forms: the horse was shod last week. Shodded and shoen are wrong.
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