Past tense of contact
regular verb
The past tense of contact is contacted. The past participle is also contacted.
Forms of contact
| Base form (V1) | contact /ˈkɑntækt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | contacted /ˈkɑntæktɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | contacted /ˈkɑntæktɪd/ |
| Present participle | contacting /ˈkɑntæktɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | contacts /ˈkɑntækts/ |
Contacted in a sentence
- The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
- After the accident I contacted the insurer who paid for the repairs.From the entry insurer
- I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.From the entry connect
- When contacted by phone, Spirin hung up without responding to questions.2025 December 11, Juliette Garside, Stas Kozliuk, Poline Tchoubar, Guillaume Vénétitay, “‘She was very, very thin’: eyewitness sheds new…. From the entry FSIN
- Mom had called Cory, who contacted Vlado, who brought a crew of Slovenians over to help.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 535. From the entry Slovenian
Meaning of contact
- noun The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- noun The establishment of communication (with).
- noun The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
Questions about the past tense of contact
- What is the past tense of contact?
- The past tense of contact is contacted.
- What is the past participle of contact?
- The past participle of contact is contacted.
- Is contact a regular or irregular verb?
- Contact is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: contact (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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