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Past tense of bring

irregular verb

The past tense of bring is brought. The past participle is also brought.

Forms of bring

Base form (V1)bring /ˈbɹɪŋ/
Past tense (V2)brought /bɹɔːt/
Past participle (V3)brought /bɹɔːt/
Present participlebringing /ˈbɹɪŋɪŋ/
Third person singularbrings /ˈbɹɪŋz/

Less standard forms: brang (dialectal), brung (dialectal), broughten (dialectal), bringed (nonstandard).

Brought in a sentence

  • A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  • Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
  • Winning the championship brought the team immense accolade from sports analysts worldwide.From the entry accolade
  • The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.From the entry heinous
  • I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.From the entry fresh

Meaning of bring

  1. verb To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  2. verb To supply or contribute.
  3. verb To occasion or bring about.

Full definition of bring

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Questions about the past tense of bring

What is the past tense of bring?
The past tense of bring is brought.
What is the past participle of bring?
The past participle of bring is brought.
Is bring a regular or irregular verb?
Bring is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Is brang correct?
brang is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of bring is brought.
Is brung correct?
brung is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of bring is brought.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bring (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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