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Past tense of reconstruct

regular verb

The past tense of reconstruct is reconstructed. The past participle is also reconstructed.

Forms of reconstruct

Base form (V1)reconstruct /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/
Past tense (V2)reconstructed
Past participle (V3)reconstructed
Present participlereconstructing
Third person singularreconstructs

Reconstructed in a sentence

  • Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages.From the entry natlang
  • The local blacksmith made all the metalwork for this reconstructed old house.From the entry metalwork
  • The apotelesma, the final point, is the retrospectively reconstructed enhypostatical union of the person of Jesus Christ.2021, Mohr Siebeck, The Perspective of Resurrection: A Trinitarian Christology, page 106. From the entry apotelesma
  • The reconstructed chromosomal sequences are often referred to as ‘pseudo-molecules’ or ‘pseudo-chromosomes’.2015 January 13, Haibao Tang, Xingtan Zhang, Chenyong Miao, et al., “ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps”, in Genome…. From the entry pseudochromosome
  • They reconstructed images over almost two decades to look for surface variations.2011, Arnold Hanslmeier, Water in the Universe, Springer, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry 134340 Pluto

Meaning of reconstruct

  1. verb To construct again; to restore.
  2. verb To attempt to understand an event by recreating, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.

Full definition of reconstruct

Questions about the past tense of reconstruct

What is the past tense of reconstruct?
The past tense of reconstruct is reconstructed.
What is the past participle of reconstruct?
The past participle of reconstruct is reconstructed.
Is reconstruct a regular or irregular verb?
Reconstruct is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconstruct (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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