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Past tense of create

regular verb

The past tense of create is created. The past participle is also created.

Forms of create

Base form (V1)create /kɹiːˈeɪt/
Past tense (V2)created /kɹiːˈeɪ̯t.ɪd/
Past participle (V3)created /kɹiːˈeɪ̯t.ɪd/
Present participlecreating /kɹiːˈeɪtɪŋ/
Third person singularcreates

Created in a sentence

  • crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
  • A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
  • The film created a hallucinatory atmosphere with its colors and sounds.From the entry hallucinatory
  • He had created a file for coding to design a new product.From the entry file
  • Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?From the entry universe

Meaning of create

  1. verb To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:).
  2. verb To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
  3. verb To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

Full definition of create

Questions about the past tense of create

What is the past tense of create?
The past tense of create is created.
What is the past participle of create?
The past participle of create is created.
Is create a regular or irregular verb?
Create is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: create (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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