Past tense of migrate
regular verb
The past tense of migrate is migrated. The past participle is also migrated.
Forms of migrate
| Base form (V1) | migrate /maɪˈɡɹeɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | migrated |
| Past participle (V3) | migrated |
| Present participle | migrating |
| Third person singular | migrates |
Migrated in a sentence
- Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.
- To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
- We migrated on to texts, voice notes, emojis and the Snapchat “streak”.2025 May 31, Jo Ellison, “The beguiling charm of a bedtime phone call”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry streak
- Traditions relate how Tayal ancestors migrated north from Ren-ai Township, Nantou County.2023, Ai-Ching Yen, Yin-An Chen, “Collective Action for Sustainable Development: A case study of a Tayal Indigenous community in Taiwan”…. From the entry Ren-ai
- I migrated to the dining car for smoked sturgeon and chleb.2013, Lawrence Winkler, “Back in the USSR”, in The Final Cartwheel, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry khleb
Meaning of migrate
- verb To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
- verb To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
- verb To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
Questions about the past tense of migrate
- What is the past tense of migrate?
- The past tense of migrate is migrated.
- What is the past participle of migrate?
- The past participle of migrate is migrated.
- Is migrate a regular or irregular verb?
- Migrate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: migrate (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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