Past tense of cube
regular verb
The past tense of cube is cubed. The past participle is also cubed.
Forms of cube
| Base form (V1) | cube /kjuːb/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | cubed |
| Past participle (V3) | cubed |
| Present participle | cubing |
| Third person singular | cubes /kjuːbz/ |
Cubed in a sentence
- Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
- The CDO cubed is a special purpose vehicle with securitization payments in the form of tranches.2012, Oonagh McDonald, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare, Bloomsbury Academic, page 317. From the entry CDO-cubed
- You form another pool of those untouchables—called a CDO cubed—and tranche away again.2009, Les Leopold, The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity and What…. From the entry CDO-cubed
- A CDO cubed is backed by CDO squared tranches, allowing the banks to resell the credit risk they had taken once again by repackaging their CDO-squared.2012, Oonagh McDonald, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare, Bloomsbury Academic, page 317. From the entry CDO-cubed
Meaning of cube
- noun A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- noun Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- noun The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
Questions about the past tense of cube
- What is the past tense of cube?
- The past tense of cube is cubed.
- What is the past participle of cube?
- The past participle of cube is cubed.
- Is cube a regular or irregular verb?
- Cube is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cube (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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