Past tense of beat
irregular verb
The past tense of beat is beat. The past participle is beaten.
Forms of beat
| Base form (V1) | beat /biːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | beat /biːt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | beaten /ˈbiː.tən/ |
| Present participle | beating /ˈbiːtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | beats /biːts/ |
Less standard forms: beated (nonstandard).
Beaten in a sentence
- His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
- The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 81
Meaning of beat
- noun A stroke; a blow.
- noun A pulsation or throb.
- noun A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
Verbs like beat
Questions about the past tense of beat
- What is the past tense of beat?
- The past tense of beat is beat.
- What is the past participle of beat?
- The past participle of beat is beaten.
- Is beat a regular or irregular verb?
- Beat is an irregular verb: its past tense keeps the same form as the base form.
- Is beated correct?
- beated is marked nonstandard in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of beat is beat.
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