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Past tense of cart

regular verb

The past tense of cart is carted. The past participle is also carted.

Forms of cart

Base form (V1)cart /kɑːt/
Past tense (V2)carted
Past participle (V3)carted
Present participlecarting /ˈkɑːtɪŋ/
Third person singularcarts /kɑɹts/

Carted in a sentence

  • On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 2, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 18
  • Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.2012, Lindsay Rae, Ashley Clements, Sarah Marland, World Poverty for Dummies, →ISBN
  • The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.From the entry bond
  • The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels.2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 20…. From the entry holdout
  • Cesspits were cleaned out by a worker known as a ‘gong-fermer’, who carted the sewage off to manure the vegetable plot.2011, Brian Williams, Life in a Medieval Castle, Pitkin Publishing, "Castle Home". From the entry gong-fermer

Meaning of cart

  1. noun A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
  2. noun A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
  3. noun A shopping cart.

Full definition of cart

Questions about the past tense of cart

What is the past tense of cart?
The past tense of cart is carted.
What is the past participle of cart?
The past participle of cart is carted.
Is cart a regular or irregular verb?
Cart is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cart (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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