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Past tense of cook

regular verb

The past tense of cook is cooked. The past participle is also cooked.

Forms of cook

Base form (V1)cook /kʊk/
Past tense (V2)cooked /kʊkt/
Past participle (V3)cooked /kʊkt/
Present participlecooking /ˈkʊkɪŋ/
Third person singularcooks /kʊks/

Less standard forms: cooken (nonstandard).

Cooked in a sentence

  • You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.2014, Randall Munroe, “Periodic Wall of the Elements”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 41
  • He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
  • As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.From the entry chocolate
  • A dish called "plank salmon" likely includes a salmon filet cooked on a plank.From the entry plank
  • We cooked a big Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, Brussels, and parsnips.From the entry Brussels

Meaning of cook

  1. noun A person who prepares food.
  2. noun The head cook of a manor house.
  3. noun The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

Full definition of cook

Questions about the past tense of cook

What is the past tense of cook?
The past tense of cook is cooked.
What is the past participle of cook?
The past participle of cook is cooked.
Is cook a regular or irregular verb?
Cook is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Is cooken correct?
cooken is marked nonstandard in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of cook is cooked.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cook (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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