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Past tense of mount

regular verb

The past tense of mount is mounted. The past participle is also mounted.

Forms of mount

Base form (V1)mount /maʊnt/
Past tense (V2)mounted /ˈmaʊntɪd/
Past participle (V3)mounted /ˈmaʊntɪd/
Present participlemounting /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/
Third person singularmounts

Mounted in a sentence

  • I mounted accordingly.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 144
  • The rider mounted his horse.
  • The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.From the entry square
  • There's a lidar mounted on the roof of that Waymo.From the entry lidar
  • Mounted on the wall was a full-bore elephant gun.From the entry full-bore

Meaning of mount

  1. noun A hill or mountain.
  2. noun Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  3. noun A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.

Full definition of mount

Questions about the past tense of mount

What is the past tense of mount?
The past tense of mount is mounted.
What is the past participle of mount?
The past participle of mount is mounted.
Is mount a regular or irregular verb?
Mount is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mount (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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