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Past tense of butter

regular verb

The past tense of butter is buttered. The past participle is also buttered.

Forms of butter

Base form (V1)butter /ˈbʌtəɹ/
Past tense (V2)buttered /ˈbʌtəɹd/
Past participle (V3)buttered /ˈbʌtəɹd/
Present participlebuttering
Third person singularbutters /ˈbʌt.əz/

Buttered in a sentence

  • The goo buttered out over the floor.From the entry butter out
  • It was all buttered and French toasty, and you put these caramelized bananas on top,” he said.2017, Melissa Marino, So Wicked, Forever Yours, →ISBN. From the entry French toasty
  • Guido arrived with three cups of kye and a plate of hot buttered toast.2013, David Arnold, Hursey in Conflict: A Story of Love and Victory, page 73. From the entry kye
  • Beat to the consistency of drop-cake, and drop a tablespoonful for each biscuit on a buttered pan.2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?. From the entry drop-cake
  • Roll up to make a cannellone and place in buttered dish.2010, Valentina Sforza, 500 Italian Dishes, London: Apple Press, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry cannellone

Meaning of butter

  1. noun A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
  2. noun Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
  3. noun Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

Full definition of butter

Questions about the past tense of butter

What is the past tense of butter?
The past tense of butter is buttered.
What is the past participle of butter?
The past participle of butter is buttered.
Is butter a regular or irregular verb?
Butter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: butter (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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