Past tense of hunt
regular verb
The past tense of hunt is hunted. The past participle is also hunted.
Forms of hunt
| Base form (V1) | hunt /hʌnt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | hunted /ˈhʌntɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | hunted /ˈhʌntɪd/ |
| Present participle | hunting /ˈhʌntɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | hunts /hʌnts/ |
Hunted in a sentence
- Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.1981, Field & Stream, volume 86, number 5, page 107
- He was hunted from the parish.
- Sure, most of us hunt deer around here, but not many of us have ever hunted moose.From the entry deer
- He looked up with a hunted expression.From the entry hunted
- The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.From the entry hatchling
Meaning of hunt
- verb To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- verb To try to find something; search (for).
- verb To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
Questions about the past tense of hunt
- What is the past tense of hunt?
- The past tense of hunt is hunted.
- What is the past participle of hunt?
- The past participle of hunt is hunted.
- Is hunt a regular or irregular verb?
- Hunt is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hunt (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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