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 participle | cooking /ˈkʊkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | cooks /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
- noun A person who prepares food.
- noun The head cook of a manor house.
- noun The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
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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