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Past tense of network

regular verb

The past tense of network is networked. The past participle is also networked.

Forms of network

Base form (V1)network /ˈnɛt.wɜːk/
Past tense (V2)networked
Past participle (V3)networked
Present participlenetworking /ˈnɛtˌwɜː(r)kɪŋ/
Third person singularnetworks

Networked in a sentence

  • The networked world is typically envisioned as a globe-spanning English Sprachraum.2011, Srdjan Vucetic, The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations, Stanford University Press, page 147. From the entry Sprachraum
  • The team has never done networked multiplay for a racing game.2008, Jesse Schell, The art of game design, page 93. From the entry multiplay
  • Content moderation as microlabor digital piecework has been perhaps an obvious site of expansion for globally networked microlabor websites.2019, Sarah T. Roberts, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, →ISBN. From the entry microlabor
  • The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry. From the entry exterminate
  • This is a vision of the computer as scold, nannying us through the networked connections in our lives.1998 April 1, Thomas A. Bass, “Dress Code”, in Wired. From the entry innernet

Meaning of network

  1. noun Any interconnected group or system.
  2. noun A set of people with sociocultural connections to one another; especially, such a set consisting of occupational or business connections.
  3. noun A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.

Full definition of network

Questions about the past tense of network

What is the past tense of network?
The past tense of network is networked.
What is the past participle of network?
The past participle of network is networked.
Is network a regular or irregular verb?
Network is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: network (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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