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 participle | fetching /ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | fetches /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
- verb To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- verb To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- verb To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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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