Past tense of mail
regular verb
The past tense of mail is mailed. The past participle is also mailed.
Forms of mail
| Base form (V1) | mail /meɪl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | mailed /meɪld/ |
| Past participle (V3) | mailed /meɪld/ |
| Present participle | mailing /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | mails /meɪlz/ |
Mailed in a sentence
- She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, she mailed me from there too.'2002, Jessica Mann, The voice from the grave, page 189
- He mailed me and said he had managed to hack into my email accounts.2011, Rose Budworth-Levine, Intimate Encounters, page 41
- I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.From the entry get
- The absentee voter mailed in his ballot on time.From the entry absentee voter
- The key to that box had been mailed to a post office box in New York City.2015 March, Cindy Gerard, chapter 10, in Running Blind, 1st Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry box
Meaning of mail
- noun A bag or wallet.
- noun A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- noun The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
Questions about the past tense of mail
- What is the past tense of mail?
- The past tense of mail is mailed.
- What is the past participle of mail?
- The past participle of mail is mailed.
- Is mail a regular or irregular verb?
- Mail is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mail (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 mail.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/mail. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.