Past tense of mine
regular verb
The past tense of mine is mined. The past participle is also mined.
Forms of mine
| Base form (V1) | mine /maɪ̯n/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | mined /maɪnd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | mined /maɪnd/ |
| Present participle | mining /ˈmaɪnɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | mines /maɪnz/ |
Mined in a sentence
- We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
- The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.From the entry coal
- One currency that is actively mined through cryptomining malware is Monero.2016 September 9, JP Buntinx, “NAS Servers Infected With Crypto Malware Are Mining Monero”, in News BTC. From the entry cryptomining
- A useful product called greensand (glauconite) is mined from petrified seaweed deposits.2013 February, Barbara Damrosch, Eliot Coleman, “The Soil”, in The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook: From the Garden to the Table in…. From the entry greensand
- He was the best dot-connector around, as he opened rich veins of truth-telling not yet fully mined.2011 March 13, Barbara Allen Kenney, “Farewell, Frank Rich”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published…. From the entry dot-connector
Meaning of mine
- pronoun Used predicatively.
- pronoun Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- pronoun Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
Questions about the past tense of mine
- What is the past tense of mine?
- The past tense of mine is mined.
- What is the past participle of mine?
- The past participle of mine is mined.
- Is mine a regular or irregular verb?
- Mine is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mine (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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