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made a mistake

made a mistake is the simple past and past participle of make a mistake.

Meaning of make a mistake

Verb

make a mistake (third-person singular simple present makes a mistake, present participle making a mistake, simple past and past participle made a mistake)

  1. To err, to be wrong. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Questions about made a mistake

What is made a mistake the simple past and past participle of?
Made a mistake is the simple past and past participle of make a mistake.

Words near made a mistake in the dictionary

  1. made a living
  2. made a long arm
  3. made a mark
  4. made a meal of
  5. made a meal out of
  6. made a mistake
  7. made a mockery of
  8. made a monkey of
  9. made a monkey out of
  10. made a mountain out of a molehill
  11. made a move

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made a mistake (page history and authors); make a mistake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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