Past tense of choose
irregular verb
The past tense of choose is chose. The past participle is chosen.
Forms of choose
| Base form (V1) | choose /t͡ʃuːz/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | chose /t͡ʃəʊz/ |
| Past participle (V3) | chosen /ˈt͡ʃəʊ.zən/ |
| Present participle | choosing /ˈt͡ʃuːzɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | chooses /ˈt͡ʃuːzɪz/ |
Less standard forms: choosed (nonstandard).
Chose and chosen in a sentence
- I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
- Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...
- He chose the correct answer, but whether by luck or by skill I don't know.From the entry whether
- The designer chose an achromatic color scheme of black, white, and gray.From the entry achromatic
- No one could think of a better name, so we chose "Strawman" by default.From the entry by default
Meaning of choose
- verb To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- verb To elect.
- verb To decide to act in a certain way.
Verbs like choose
Questions about the past tense of choose
- What is the past tense of choose?
- The past tense of choose is chose.
- What is the past participle of choose?
- The past participle of choose is chosen.
- Is choose a regular or irregular verb?
- Choose is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
- Is choosed correct?
- choosed is marked nonstandard in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of choose is chose.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: choose (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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