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Past tense of conform

regular verb

The past tense of conform is conformed. The past participle is also conformed.

Forms of conform

Base form (V1)conform /kənˈfɔːm/
Past tense (V2)conformed
Past participle (V3)conformed
Present participleconforming
Third person singularconforms

Conformed in a sentence

  • In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.1919, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 11, in The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit
  • In legitimate comedy actresses conformed to a Victorian image of coquetry.1983, Chad Evans, “The Road to British Columbia”, in Frontier Theatre: A History of Nineteenth-century Theatrical Entertainment in the…. From the entry endearing
  • The Japanese community in Vladivostok lived a life that preserved their traditional culture but also conformed to the local cultural diversity.2023, Kumi Tateoka, “Vladivostok as а Meeting Point between West and East at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Around Years of Siberian…. From the entry pryanik
  • In this manner the speech ways of this social class conformed to those of London to a considerable extent.2006, Geoffrey Forward, Pro Speech, page 39. From the entry speech way
  • Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan’s sometimes laxly enforced construction codes.1999 October 4, Jeffrey Kluger, “Tears and Trembling”, in Time. From the entry laxly

Meaning of conform

  1. verb To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
  2. verb To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
  3. verb To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.

Full definition of conform

Questions about the past tense of conform

What is the past tense of conform?
The past tense of conform is conformed.
What is the past participle of conform?
The past participle of conform is conformed.
Is conform a regular or irregular verb?
Conform is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conform (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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