Past tense of live
regular verb
The past tense of live is lived. The past participle is also lived.
Forms of live
| Base form (V1) | live /ˈlɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | lived /lɪvd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | lived /lɪvd/ |
| Present participle | living /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | lives /lɪvz/ |
Lived in a sentence
- The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.
- Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople.From the entry word
- The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.From the entry Acadian
- It’s a long while since anyone lived there, so it’s a ruin now.From the entry while
Meaning of live
- verb To be alive; to have life.
- verb To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- verb (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
Questions about the past tense of live
- What is the past tense of live?
- The past tense of live is lived.
- What is the past participle of live?
- The past participle of live is lived.
- Is live a regular or irregular verb?
- Live is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: live (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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