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Past tense of contextualize

regular verb

The past tense of contextualize is contextualized. The past participle is also contextualized.

Forms of contextualize

Base form (V1)contextualize /kənˈtɛkstʃʊəlʌɪz/
Past tense (V2)contextualized
Past participle (V3)contextualized
Present participlecontextualizing
Third person singularcontextualizes

Contextualized in a sentence

  • But taken together and contextualized within the film's pragmatic designs, they become an invitation to undestroy everything by learning to read the already written future.2018, Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology, page 213. From the entry undestroy

Meaning of contextualize

  1. verb To place something or someone in a particular context.

Full definition of contextualize

Questions about the past tense of contextualize

What is the past tense of contextualize?
The past tense of contextualize is contextualized.
What is the past participle of contextualize?
The past participle of contextualize is contextualized.
Is contextualize a regular or irregular verb?
Contextualize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contextualize (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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