Past tense of quit
irregular verb
The past tense of quit is quit or quitted. The past participle is also quit or quitted.
Forms of quit
| Base form (V1) | quit /kwɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | quit /kwɪt/ quitted /ˈkwɪtəd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | quit /kwɪt/ quitted /ˈkwɪtəd/ |
| Present participle | quitting |
| Third person singular | quits /kwɪts/ |
Quitted in a sentence
- The lions, if they left not the forest, would capture no prey; and the arrow, if it quitted not the bow, would not strike the mark.1912, Edward Stanley Poole, transl., The Thousand and One Nights
- They feared lest passing souls, which had just quitted the bodies of dying people, should enter their huts and carry off the souls of the inmates to deadland.1990, Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: Taboo and the perils of the soul, page 70. From the entry deadland
Meaning of quit
- adjective Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
- verb To leave (a place).
- verb To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
Verbs like quit
Questions about the past tense of quit
- What is the past tense of quit?
- The past tense of quit is quit or quitted.
- What is the past participle of quit?
- The past participle of quit is quit or quitted.
- Is quit a regular or irregular verb?
- Quit is an irregular verb: its past tense keeps the same form as the base form.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quit (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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