Word.ws English Dictionary

Past tense of go

irregular verb

The past tense of go is went. The past participle is gone.

Forms of go

Base form (V1)go /ɡəʊ/
Past tense (V2)went /wɛnt/
Past participle (V3)gone /ɡɒn/
Present participlegoing /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/
Third person singulargoes /ɡəʊz/

Less standard forms: goed (nonstandard).

Went and gone in a sentence

  • The rumour went all around town.
  • We've only gone twenty miles today.
  • His face went ablush after realizing he had spoken out of turn.From the entry ablush
  • Some of the cast went down with flu, but the show's still on.From the entry on
  • He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession.From the entry on

Meaning of go

  1. verb To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.).
  2. verb To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.).
  3. verb To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.).

Full definition of go

Verbs like go

Questions about the past tense of go

What is the past tense of go?
The past tense of go is went.
What is the past participle of go?
The past participle of go is gone.
Is go a regular or irregular verb?
Go is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Is goed correct?
goed is marked nonstandard in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of go is went.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Past tense of go.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/go. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.