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Past tense of case

regular verb

The past tense of case is cased. The past participle is also cased.

Forms of case

Base form (V1)case /keɪs/
Past tense (V2)cased /keɪst/
Past participle (V3)cased /keɪst/
Present participlecasing /ˈkeɪsɪŋ/
Third person singularcases /ˈkeɪsɪz/

Cased in a sentence

  • The computer should be cased up when you're done using it.From the entry case up
  • I can't believe you got cased up for what happened at the store.From the entry case up
  • The hotel should be cased up for winter.From the entry case up
  • He cased up the nicest houses in the neighborhood.From the entry case up
  • They cased out the big house.From the entry case out

Meaning of case

  1. noun An actual event, situation, or fact.
  2. noun A given condition or state.
  3. noun A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.

Full definition of case

Questions about the past tense of case

What is the past tense of case?
The past tense of case is cased.
What is the past participle of case?
The past participle of case is cased.
Is case a regular or irregular verb?
Case is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: case (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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