Past tense of offer
regular verb
The past tense of offer is offered. The past participle is also offered.
Forms of offer
| Base form (V1) | offer /ˈɒfə(ɹ)/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | offered /ˈɒfəd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | offered /ˈɒfəd/ |
| Present participle | offering /ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | offers /ˈɒfəz/ |
Offered in a sentence
- She offered to help with her homework.
- Everybody offered an opinion.
- Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.From the entry spring
- She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.From the entry one
- While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.From the entry concrete
Meaning of offer
- noun A proposal that has been made.
- noun Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
- noun An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
Questions about the past tense of offer
- What is the past tense of offer?
- The past tense of offer is offered.
- What is the past participle of offer?
- The past participle of offer is offered.
- Is offer a regular or irregular verb?
- Offer is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: offer (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.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of offer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/offer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.