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Past tense of photograph

regular verb

The past tense of photograph is photographed. The past participle is also photographed.

Forms of photograph

Base form (V1)photograph /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf/
Past tense (V2)photographed
Past participle (V3)photographed
Present participlephotographing
Third person singularphotographs /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/

Photographed in a sentence

  • The boy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.2018 March 28, Melissa Gray, “Boy in viral hug photo missing after family’s car plunges off cliff”, in CNN
  • He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2021
  • The chiromancer examined my palms first, and eventually had my hands photographed.From the entry palm
  • Old Kaohsiung City Council Hall is photographed in a semi-derelict state in the city's Cianjin District Tuesday.2023 September 19, “Idle heritage”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2023, Photos of the Day. From the entry Cianjin
  • I have a whole bunch I've photographed and saved on my phone.2018, Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat, unnumbered page. From the entry Percabeth

Meaning of photograph

  1. noun A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
  2. verb To take a photograph (of).
  3. verb To fix permanently in the memory etc.

Full definition of photograph

Questions about the past tense of photograph

What is the past tense of photograph?
The past tense of photograph is photographed.
What is the past participle of photograph?
The past participle of photograph is photographed.
Is photograph a regular or irregular verb?
Photograph is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: photograph (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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