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Past tense of query

regular verb

The past tense of query is queried. The past participle is also queried.

Forms of query

Base form (V1)query /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/
Past tense (V2)queried
Past participle (V3)queried
Present participlequerying
Third person singularqueries

Queried in a sentence

  • “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?”1994, Dermot Healy, “As Gaelige”, in A Goat’s Song, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, part II (The...
  • No one queried it.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249
  • “The rest of the complex on the coast is for the mundanes.” “Mundanes?”, queried Peter.2023, Michael Robert von Blucher-Altona, “Landings” (chapter 17), in Forkbraid: The Price of Peace, Michael Robert von Blucher-Altona, →ISBN. From the entry mundane
  • One wonders how many theatergoers, queried about just what they saw and cheered, could come up with a cogent reply.2003 October 9, “In Brief: Beckett/Albee”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec…. From the entry Pavlovianly
  • So these bulllike men queried the brahmin, O king, and he told them the entire story of the birth of Draupadí.1973, J. A. B. van Buitenen (tr.), transl., The Mahābhārata, Book 1, page 314. From the entry bulllike

Meaning of query

  1. noun A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
  2. noun A question mark.
  3. noun A set of instructions passed to a database.

Full definition of query

Questions about the past tense of query

What is the past tense of query?
The past tense of query is queried.
What is the past participle of query?
The past participle of query is queried.
Is query a regular or irregular verb?
Query is a regular verb: its past tense changes -y to -ied.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: query (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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