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Past tense of narrate

regular verb

The past tense of narrate is narrated. The past participle is also narrated.

Forms of narrate

Base form (V1)narrate /nəˈɹeɪt/
Past tense (V2)narrated /nəˈɹeɪtɪd/
Past participle (V3)narrated /nəˈɹeɪtɪd/
Present participlenarrating
Third person singularnarrates

Narrated in a sentence

  • The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.From the entry omniscient
  • I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same way that a griot would have.2003, Melissa Thackway, “Interview I: Adama Drabo, director”, in Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone…. From the entry griot
  • During the nineteenth century battues for large carnivores were quite frequently narrated as instructive stories about the organization of the hunt.2017, Karin Dirke, “Changing Narratives of Human: Large Carnivore Encounters in Nineteenth-century Sweden”, in Tuomas Räsänen, Taina…. From the entry battue
  • A wrenching breakup is narrated via Facebook, GChat, Skype and a number of other mediating and alienating applications.2014 February 7, Teddy Wayne, “The 7-Day Digital Diet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry gchat
  • For starters, there’s a collection of fully narrated video tutorials that show you step by step how to perform various tasks.1999 June, Popular Mechanics, page 34. From the entry handholder

Meaning of narrate

  1. verb To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.
  2. verb To give an account.

Full definition of narrate

Questions about the past tense of narrate

What is the past tense of narrate?
The past tense of narrate is narrated.
What is the past participle of narrate?
The past participle of narrate is narrated.
Is narrate a regular or irregular verb?
Narrate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: narrate (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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