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Past tense of fetch

regular verb

The past tense of fetch is fetched. The past participle is also fetched.

Forms of fetch

Base form (V1)fetch /fɛt͡ʃ/
Past tense (V2)fetched
Past participle (V3)fetched
Present participlefetching /ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
Third person singularfetches /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪz/

Fetched in a sentence

  • When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
  • The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
  • The painting fetched a princely sum.From the entry princely sum
  • Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse.2014, Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. From the entry lurksome
  • I fetched my briefs, pulled them on, and we left the changing room.2012, Luis Algorri, You’ll Hear From Me: A Gay Story about Passion and Love. From the entry briefs

Meaning of fetch

  1. verb To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  2. verb To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  3. verb To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Full definition of fetch

Questions about the past tense of fetch

What is the past tense of fetch?
The past tense of fetch is fetched.
What is the past participle of fetch?
The past participle of fetch is fetched.
Is fetch a regular or irregular verb?
Fetch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fetch (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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