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Past tense of click

regular verb

The past tense of click is clicked. The past participle is also clicked.

Forms of click

Base form (V1)click /klɪk/
Past tense (V2)clicked /klɪkt/
Past participle (V3)clicked /klɪkt/
Present participleclicking /ˈklɪkɪŋ/
Third person singularclicks /klɪks/

Clicked in a sentence

  • Dan clicked his tongue.1956, Ethel Anderson, At Parramatta, published 1985, page 60
  • I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
  • John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.From the entry population
  • John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.From the entry populate
  • After two hours of studying, it finally clicked for me.From the entry click for

Meaning of click

  1. noun A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
  2. noun The act of snapping one's fingers.
  3. noun An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

Full definition of click

Questions about the past tense of click

What is the past tense of click?
The past tense of click is clicked.
What is the past participle of click?
The past participle of click is clicked.
Is click a regular or irregular verb?
Click is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: click (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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