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Past tense of commemorate

regular verb

The past tense of commemorate is commemorated. The past participle is also commemorated.

Forms of commemorate

Base form (V1)commemorate /kəˈmɛməˌɹeɪt/
Past tense (V2)commemorated
Past participle (V3)commemorated
Present participlecommemorating
Third person singularcommemorates

Commemorated in a sentence

  • On the anniversary of Korczak's murder, Israel commemorated him with a special postal issue.2009, Naava Piatka, No Goodbyes: A Father-Daughter Memoir of Love, War and Resurrection, page 98
  • "American Yiddish commemorated this era of poor management with the term "kessel garten", meaning a crowded and disorderly place."From the entry kesselgarten
  • Our ancestors were creative in the ways they commemorated historical climactic events.2020, Valerie Trouet, “Winter is Coming”, in Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins…. From the entry hunger stone
  • The reigning monarch, King George VI, is commemorated by two express engines—G.W.R.1945 July and August, “Notes and News: Duplicate Locomotive Names”, in Railway Magazine, page 235. From the entry reigning
  • On Oct. 26, one of those attacks was commemorated.2024 October 29, Yvonne Krumrey, “Navy apologizes to Angoon community for bombarding village in 1882”, in NPR. From the entry Lingít

Meaning of commemorate

  1. verb To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
  2. verb To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
  3. adjective Commemorated.

Full definition of commemorate

Questions about the past tense of commemorate

What is the past tense of commemorate?
The past tense of commemorate is commemorated.
What is the past participle of commemorate?
The past participle of commemorate is commemorated.
Is commemorate a regular or irregular verb?
Commemorate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commemorate (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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