Past tense of mash
regular verb
The past tense of mash is mashed. The past participle is also mashed.
Forms of mash
| Base form (V1) | mash /mæʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | mashed /mæʃt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | mashed /mæʃt/ |
| Present participle | mashing |
| Third person singular | mashes |
Mashed in a sentence
- The potatoes need to be mashed.
- He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
- I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.From the entry stuff
- He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.From the entry mound
- She has mashed potatoes as a sidedish every day for lunch.From the entry sidedish
Meaning of mash
- noun A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
- noun Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
- noun Mashed potatoes.
Questions about the past tense of mash
- What is the past tense of mash?
- The past tense of mash is mashed.
- What is the past participle of mash?
- The past participle of mash is mashed.
- Is mash a regular or irregular verb?
- Mash is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mash (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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