Past tense of oversleep
irregular verb
The past tense of oversleep is overslept. The past participle is also overslept.
Forms of oversleep
| Base form (V1) | oversleep /əʊvəˈsliːp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | overslept /ˌəʊ.vəˈslɛpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | overslept /ˌəʊ.vəˈslɛpt/ |
| Present participle | oversleeping |
| Third person singular | oversleeps |
Overslept in a sentence
- I overslept and was late for school.
- He woke feeling livery, and aware that he had overslept the morning.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 204. From the entry livery
Meaning of oversleep
- verb To sleep for longer than intended.
- verb To sleep for longer than one intended.
- verb To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).
Verbs like oversleep
Questions about the past tense of oversleep
- What is the past tense of oversleep?
- The past tense of oversleep is overslept.
- What is the past participle of oversleep?
- The past participle of oversleep is overslept.
- Is oversleep a regular or irregular verb?
- Oversleep is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversleep (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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