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Past tense of film

regular verb

The past tense of film is filmed. The past participle is also filmed.

Forms of film

Base form (V1)film /fɪlm/
Past tense (V2)filmed /fɪlmd/
Past participle (V3)filmed /fɪlmd/
Present participlefilming /ˈfɪlmɪŋ/
Third person singularfilms /fɪlmz/

Filmed in a sentence

  • Her legs folded under her, and her eyes filmed over.2012, Nathan Archer, Valhalla
  • From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.From the entry car
  • Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.From the entry noddy
  • He filmed the scene with a hand-held camera.From the entry hand-held
  • Oil from the spill filmed out over the ocean.From the entry film out

Meaning of film

  1. noun A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
  2. noun A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  3. noun The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.

Full definition of film

Questions about the past tense of film

What is the past tense of film?
The past tense of film is filmed.
What is the past participle of film?
The past participle of film is filmed.
Is film a regular or irregular verb?
Film is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: film (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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