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Past tense of clatter

regular verb

The past tense of clatter is clattered. The past participle is also clattered.

Forms of clatter

Base form (V1)clatter /ˈklætəː/
Past tense (V2)clattered
Past participle (V3)clattered
Present participleclattering
Third person singularclatters

Clattered in a sentence

  • What of my impetus and the stunning surprise, I clattered three or four steps along the deck before I could stop myself.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
  • “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.2010, Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
  • Twelve laps later, Leclerc locked up at the first chicane and clattered over the run-off area.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport. From the entry lock up
  • The lock somehow managed to miss everyone below and clattered against the pavement.2014, Kenneth Calhoun, chapter 15, in Black Moon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, →ISBN, page 240. From the entry fastball
  • The stones clattered on the coffin; the mud remained in his hand.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, page 167. From the entry mullock

Meaning of clatter

  1. verb To make a rattling sound.
  2. verb To chatter noisily or rapidly.
  3. verb To hit; to smack.

Full definition of clatter

Questions about the past tense of clatter

What is the past tense of clatter?
The past tense of clatter is clattered.
What is the past participle of clatter?
The past participle of clatter is clattered.
Is clatter a regular or irregular verb?
Clatter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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