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Past tense of remarry

regular verb

The past tense of remarry is remarried. The past participle is also remarried.

Forms of remarry

Base form (V1)remarry /ɹiːˈmæɹi/
Past tense (V2)remarried
Past participle (V3)remarried
Present participleremarrying
Third person singularremarries

Remarried in a sentence

  • After his wife's death, he never remarried.
  • To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.
  • The remarried couples among my friends often joke that their divorce and remarriage amounted to an upgrade.From the entry upgrade
  • Appalonia's mother died when she was twelve, and my grandfather remarried a much younger woman.1993, Holly S. McClure, Island Magic, Thomas Bouregy & Company, →ISBN. From the entry Appalonia
  • If you do become a midwife or midman, you are allowed to get remarried if you wish to do so.2021, Sam Miller, Memoir: Reasons Why I Left the Amish Community, page 123. From the entry midman

Meaning of remarry

  1. verb To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage.

Full definition of remarry

Questions about the past tense of remarry

What is the past tense of remarry?
The past tense of remarry is remarried.
What is the past participle of remarry?
The past participle of remarry is remarried.
Is remarry a regular or irregular verb?
Remarry is a regular verb: its past tense changes -y to -ied.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: remarry (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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