different between used vs usen

English

Etymology

From Middle English used, equivalent to use +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ju?zd/
• (past of use): enPR: yo?ozd, IPA^(key): /ju?zd/
• (auxiliary verb): IPA^(key): /ju?zd/, /ju?st/
• Rhymes: -u?st

Verb

used

1. simple past tense and past participle of use
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75

     In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.

   You used me!

2. (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]

   He used to live here, but moved away last year.

Adjective

used (comparative more used, superlative most used)

1. That is or has or have been used.

2. That has or have previously been owned by someone else.

3. Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
   • 1965, Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"

     Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.

Synonyms

• (having been used):
• (previously owned by someone else): pre-owned, second-hand

Antonyms

• (having been used): unused
• (previously owned by someone else): new

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• usedness

Translations

See also

• used to

Anagrams

• Dues, desu, dues, duse, sued

English

Verb

usen

1. (archaic or nonstandard) past participle of use

Anagrams

• Enus, Neus, Suen

Asturian

Verb

usen

1. inflection of usar:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

Catalan

Verb

usen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of usar

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (infinitive): us, use, usi, usie, uson, ues, uesen, ouse, huse, hoise, yowes, uise (chiefly in northern dialects), oise, oisin (East Anglia)
• (third-person singular simple present): useth, usit, uzeth (Kent)
• (plural simple present): usen, usun, usune, uzeth (Kent)
• (present participle): using, usinge, usint
• (singular simple past): used, usede, usedde, usit, uisit (chiefly in northern dialects)
• (plural simple past): used, usede, useden, usuden (West Midlands), usut, uiseden (early Middle English, in southwestern dialects), uset (late Middle English)
• (past participle): used, usede, iused, iusede, uset, usude, ussede, ussit, uszed, eusid, iuised (West Midlands), iuzed (Kent), usith (error), wysed (error)

Etymology

From the Old French user, usser, uiser, huser, and the Anglo-Norman usier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iu?z?n/

Verb

usen

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   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto. And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

Derived terms

• usedestou

References

• “?sen, v..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Verb

usen

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of usar.
2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of usar.
3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of usar.