Past tense of plant
regular verb
The past tense of plant is planted. The past participle is also planted.
Forms of plant
| Base form (V1) | plant /plɑːnt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | planted /ˈplɑːntɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | planted /ˈplɑːntɪd/ |
| Present participle | planting /ˈplɑːntɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | plants /plɑːnts/ |
Planted in a sentence
- That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
- Not only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing journalist revealed all about the love nest.1999, Terry Prone, The Skywriter, page 182
- The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.From the entry ash
- I planted a few seeds and had radishes out the wazoo within a month.From the entry out the wazoo
- Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables.From the entry homegrown
Meaning of plant
- noun An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- noun An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- noun Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
Questions about the past tense of plant
- What is the past tense of plant?
- The past tense of plant is planted.
- What is the past participle of plant?
- The past participle of plant is planted.
- Is plant a regular or irregular verb?
- Plant is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: plant (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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