Past tense of participate
regular verb
The past tense of participate is participated. The past participle is also participated.
Forms of participate
| Base form (V1) | participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | participated |
| Past participle (V3) | participated |
| Present participle | participating |
| Third person singular | participates |
Participated in a sentence
- Alex participated in cheer all four years of college.From the entry cheer
- The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.From the entry disciplinary
- They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated.From the entry murderously
- As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.From the entry anoikism
- Young people who had actively participated in the October Revolution had rejected past ideologies and opinions.2023, Alberto Angelini, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work. From the entry opinability
Meaning of participate
- verb To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
- verb To share, to take part in (something).
- verb To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.
Questions about the past tense of participate
- What is the past tense of participate?
- The past tense of participate is participated.
- What is the past participle of participate?
- The past participle of participate is participated.
- Is participate a regular or irregular verb?
- Participate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: participate (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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