Past tense of fragment
regular verb
The past tense of fragment is fragmented. The past participle is also fragmented.
Forms of fragment
| Base form (V1) | fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | fragmented |
| Past participle (V3) | fragmented |
| Present participle | fragmenting |
| Third person singular | fragments /ˈfɹæɡmənts/ |
Fragmented in a sentence
- Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization
- An investigation found that the rail had fragmented as trains passed over it, and that the likely cause was "rolling contact fatigue" defined as multiple surface-breaking cracks.2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Tackling broken rails: the skills and technology improving safety”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 30
- This dialectal dexterity prevents fragmented accuracy across geos and usage domains.2024 May 31, Josué R. Batista, Learn OpenAI Whisper: Transform your understanding of GenAI through robust and accurate speech processing…. From the entry geo
- As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry fell
- Such antispatial, incorporeal, and fragmented modes of communication make physical proximity less important.1996, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's Literary Annual 1996, volume 1. From the entry antispatial
Meaning of fragment
- noun A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
- noun A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- noun An incomplete portion of code.
Questions about the past tense of fragment
- What is the past tense of fragment?
- The past tense of fragment is fragmented.
- What is the past participle of fragment?
- The past participle of fragment is fragmented.
- Is fragment a regular or irregular verb?
- Fragment is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fragment (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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