[Grammar] When you bid someone farewell or bid farewell to someone.

[Aamir Tariq]

"Bidden" is the past participle of bid. So in present perfect tense it should either be.

I have bidden her farewell.
I have bidden farewell to her.

But I have read sentences on the web like these.

A proud mother has bid her daughter farewell as she prepares to row 5,000 miles across the Pacific. [London Evening Standard]

He had bid his wife and children — Heather, 11, and Tommy, 8 — goodbye at the hotel. [Billings Gazette]

Now, Shouldn't it be "A proud mother has bidden her daughter farewell and blah blah blah."

And shouldn't it be "He had bidden his wife and children — Heather, 11, and Tommy, 8 — goodbye at the hotel.

Regards
Aamir the Global Citizen

 

[jutfrank]

I don't know what other members will say, but after testing out how both bidden and bid sound in my head, I think I would prefer to use bid instead of bidden.

It's not a very high-frequency verb so it's hard to know. Maybe there's some interference going on from the other meaning of bid, as in to bid at an auction.

 

[GoesStation]

I'm with wordreference.com: either bid or bidden is possible. I might say I'd bidden her farewell, but only I'd bid ten dollars sounds natural to me.

This seems to be one of those verbs with a different past participle in transitive and intransitive uses.