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Past tense of assign

regular verb

The past tense of assign is assigned. The past participle is also assigned.

Forms of assign

Base form (V1)assign /əˈsaɪn/
Past tense (V2)assigned /əˈsaɪnd/
Past participle (V3)assigned /əˈsaɪnd/
Present participleassigning
Third person singularassigns

Assigned in a sentence

  • He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.From the entry trumpet
  • In this study, participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm or a treatment arm.From the entry participant
  • All fossilized roots of scale trees are assigned to the form taxon 'Stigmaria'.From the entry form taxon
  • All fossilized roots of scale trees are assigned to the form genus 'Stigmaria'.From the entry form genus

Meaning of assign

  1. verb To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
  2. verb To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
  3. verb To allot or give (something) as a task.

Full definition of assign

Questions about the past tense of assign

What is the past tense of assign?
The past tense of assign is assigned.
What is the past participle of assign?
The past participle of assign is assigned.
Is assign a regular or irregular verb?
Assign is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assign (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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