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Past tense of manage

regular verb

The past tense of manage is managed. The past participle is also managed.

Forms of manage

Base form (V1)manage /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)managed /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒd/
Past participle (V3)managed /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒd/
Present participlemanaging /ˈmæn.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
Third person singularmanages /ˈmæn.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/

Managed in a sentence

  • Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750
  • The government managed the inflation very poorly.
  • I managed to murmur some words of consolation as I left the funeral.From the entry word
  • Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.From the entry color
  • Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.From the entry jump

Meaning of manage

  1. verb To direct or be in charge of.
  2. verb To handle or control (a situation, job).
  3. verb To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

Full definition of manage

Questions about the past tense of manage

What is the past tense of manage?
The past tense of manage is managed.
What is the past participle of manage?
The past participle of manage is managed.
Is manage a regular or irregular verb?
Manage is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: manage (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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