Past tense of account
regular verb
The past tense of account is accounted. The past participle is also accounted.
Forms of account
| Base form (V1) | account /əˈkaʊnt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | accounted /əˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | accounted /əˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| Present participle | accounting /əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | accounts /əˈkaʊnts/ |
Accounted in a sentence
- After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
- His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls.From the entry looks
- Although physical imports exceeded exports, when invisible exports were accounted for the balance of payments was healthy.From the entry invisible export
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:accounted.From the entry accounted
- German speakers accounted for 37% of the population.From the entry account for
Meaning of account
- noun A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- noun A bank account.
- noun A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
Questions about the past tense of account
- What is the past tense of account?
- The past tense of account is accounted.
- What is the past participle of account?
- The past participle of account is accounted.
- Is account a regular or irregular verb?
- Account is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: account (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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