Translations

2 languages

Examples

14 sentences
  1. There are some pencils in the drawer.

  2. There's a pencil in the desk drawer.

  3. There weren't any pencils in the drawer.

Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To fill in or write in using pencil.

  2. (idiomatic, transitive)To provisionally schedule.

    I'll pencil you in for tomorrow at noon.

Forms

pencils in, penciling in, penciled in, penciled in

irregular

Base formpencil in · to pencil in
3rd person singularpencils in
Present participlepenciling in
Past simplepenciled in / pencilled in
Past participlepenciled in / pencilled in

Tenses

pencil in · penciled in · will pencil in · have penciled in

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypencil in
he, she, itpencils in

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave penciled in
he, she, ithas penciled in

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pencil in

Past simpleLesson

all personspenciled in

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpen in

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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