Past tense of animate
regular verb
The past tense of animate is animated. The past participle is also animated.
Forms of animate
| Base form (V1) | animate /ˈæn.ɪ.mət/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | animated /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | animated /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/ |
| Present participle | animating |
| Third person singular | animates |
Animated in a sentence
- leaves animated by a stiff breeze
- Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.From the entry family
- The bogeyman of a Halloween-candy poisoner behind every door has animated occasional moral panics against trick-or-treating.From the entry bogeyman
- There was a terrible animated logo on the splash page.From the entry splash page
- The teapot was brought to life in the animated movie.From the entry bring to life
Meaning of animate
- adjective That lives.
- adjective That has (or is believed to have) a spirit (anima) and/or some amount of consciousness and sentience, either being alive or supernaturally seeming alive.
- adjective Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
Questions about the past tense of animate
- What is the past tense of animate?
- The past tense of animate is animated.
- What is the past participle of animate?
- The past participle of animate is animated.
- Is animate a regular or irregular verb?
- Animate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: animate (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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