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Past tense of attest

regular verb

The past tense of attest is attested. The past participle is also attested.

Forms of attest

Base form (V1)attest /əˈtɛst/
Past tense (V2)attested /əˈtɛstɪd/
Past participle (V3)attested /əˈtɛstɪd/
Present participleattesting /əˈtɛstɪŋ/
Third person singularattests /əˈtɛsts/

Attested in a sentence

  • Her fine work attested her ability.
  • Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages.From the entry natlang
  • The word "slæpwerig" (sleep-weary) is attested in the Exeter Book in the form "slæpwerigne".From the entry attested
  • In practice, a productive prefix yields many attested words (especially new coinages) without loss of meaning.2026 April, Olha Matviyas, Victoria Rokoshevs’ka, Yulia Leshchyshyn, “THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PREFIXES IN ENGLISH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY”, in The…. From the entry productive
  • Some of the attested vocalic "monotony" can be explained by means of assimilatory processes within Sardinian.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 419. From the entry assimilatory

Meaning of attest

  1. verb To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
  2. verb To certify by signature or oath.
  3. verb To certify in an official capacity.

Full definition of attest

Questions about the past tense of attest

What is the past tense of attest?
The past tense of attest is attested.
What is the past participle of attest?
The past participle of attest is attested.
Is attest a regular or irregular verb?
Attest is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: attest (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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