Past tense of format
regular verb
The past tense of format is formatted. The past participle is also formatted.
Forms of format
| Base form (V1) | format /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | formatted |
| Past participle (V3) | formatted |
| Present participle | formatting /ˈfɔː.mæt.iŋ/ |
| Third person singular | formats /ˈfɔɹ.mæts/ |
Formatted in a sentence
- I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.
- We formatted the article to look better on smaller screens.From the entry formatted
- Exchanging information via documents formatted in XML is a fundamental part of the browserless Web.2001 January, Network World, volume 18, number 5, page 100. From the entry browserless
- If one click doesn't do the trick, then some of the text probably wasn't formatted.1999, Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay, Kathy Warfel, WordPerfect 9 for Windows For Dummies, page 119. From the entry unformat
- This has the effect of discarding the already formatted text of the retrieved page.1980 October, Luis F. Cabrera, “A Performance Evaluation Study of UNIX”, in Harold Joseph Highland, editor, Computer Performance…. From the entry /dev/null
Meaning of format
- noun The layout of a publication or document.
- noun The form of presentation of something.
- noun The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
Questions about the past tense of format
- What is the past tense of format?
- The past tense of format is formatted.
- What is the past participle of format?
- The past participle of format is formatted.
- Is format a regular or irregular verb?
- Format is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: format (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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