Past tense of dream
regular verb
The past tense of dream is dreamed or dreamt. The past participle is also dreamed or dreamt.
Forms of dream
| Base form (V1) | dream /ˈdɹiːm/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | dreamed /ˈdɹiːmd/ dreamt /dɹɛmt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | dreamed /ˈdɹiːmd/ dreamt /dɹɛmt/ |
| Present participle | dreaming /ˈdɹiː.mɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | dreams /dɹiːmz/ |
Dreamed and dreamt in a sentence
- I dreamed a vivid dream last night.
- My uncle dreamed of getting into an IIT and becoming an engineer.From the entry IIT
- They dreamed of a nonconsumerist, postcapitalist society.From the entry nonconsumerist
- “I would never have dreamed in a million years,” he said, “that this would happen.”2023 April 19, Jesse McKinley, Jay Root, Chelsia Rose Marcius, “Victim’s Father Breaks Down as Bail Is Denied in Wrong-Driveway Shooting”…. From the entry never in a million years
- From a very young age, Han Song-i dreamed of becoming a star.2018 April 2, Tim Franco, “Telling the Stories of Defectors From North Korea”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2018. From the entry Amnok
Meaning of dream
- noun Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
- noun A hope or wish.
- noun A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
Questions about the past tense of dream
- What is the past tense of dream?
- The past tense of dream is dreamed or dreamt.
- What is the past participle of dream?
- The past participle of dream is dreamed or dreamt.
- Is dream a regular or irregular verb?
- Dream is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dream (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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