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Past tense of parse

regular verb

The past tense of parse is parsed. The past participle is also parsed.

Forms of parse

Base form (V1)parse /pɑːz/
Past tense (V2)parsed
Past participle (V3)parsed
Present participleparsing /ˈpɑː.zɪŋ/
Third person singularparses

Parsed in a sentence

  • SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis. From the entry lex
  • This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 1, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. From the entry inure

Meaning of parse

  1. verb To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
  2. verb To examine closely; to scrutinize.
  3. verb To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.

Full definition of parse

Questions about the past tense of parse

What is the past tense of parse?
The past tense of parse is parsed.
What is the past participle of parse?
The past participle of parse is parsed.
Is parse a regular or irregular verb?
Parse is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parse (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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