Past tense of contribute
regular verb
The past tense of contribute is contributed. The past participle is also contributed.
Forms of contribute
| Base form (V1) | contribute /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹɪb.juːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | contributed /kənˈtɹɪbjuːtɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | contributed /kənˈtɹɪbjuːtɪd/ |
| Present participle | contributing /kənˈtɹɪbjuːtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | contributes |
Contributed in a sentence
- Lifetime ARPU, or the average revenue contributed per user over the lifetime of a product, can provide some insight into the habits of a large group of users within the product.2013, Eric Benjamin Seufert, Freemium Economics: Leveraging Analytics and User Segmentation to Drive Revenue, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 94
- Though only a student, he contributed informedly to the political debate.From the entry informedly
- As twin studies proliferated throughout the nineteen-eighties, their results contributed to substantial changes in our moral intuitions.2021 September 6, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?”, in The New Yorker. From the entry à la carte
- Both of us have Long Covid and have contributed to making it.2021 January, Felicity Callard, Elisa Perego, “How and Why Patients Made Long Covid”, in Ichiro Kawachi, S. V. Subramanian, editors…. From the entry long covid
- We found that superspreading has overwhelmingly contributed to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the city overall.2020 June 2, Dillon C. Adam, Benjamin J. Cowling, “Just Stop the Superspreading”, in New York Times. From the entry superspreading
Meaning of contribute
- verb To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
Questions about the past tense of contribute
- What is the past tense of contribute?
- The past tense of contribute is contributed.
- What is the past participle of contribute?
- The past participle of contribute is contributed.
- Is contribute a regular or irregular verb?
- Contribute is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: contribute (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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