Past tense of crack
regular verb
The past tense of crack is cracked. The past participle is also cracked.
Forms of crack
| Base form (V1) | crack /kɹæk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | cracked /kɹækt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | cracked /kɹækt/ |
| Present participle | cracking /ˈkɹækɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | cracks /kɹæks/ |
Cracked in a sentence
- When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
- When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
- The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.From the entry trumpet
- The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.From the entry pig
- Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.From the entry corollary
Meaning of crack
- verb To form cracks.
- verb To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- verb To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
Questions about the past tense of crack
- What is the past tense of crack?
- The past tense of crack is cracked.
- What is the past participle of crack?
- The past participle of crack is cracked.
- Is crack a regular or irregular verb?
- Crack is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crack (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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