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Past tense of remember

regular verb

The past tense of remember is remembered. The past participle is also remembered.

Forms of remember

Base form (V1)remember /ɹɪˈmɛm.bə/
Past tense (V2)remembered /ɹɪˈmɛmbɚd/
Past participle (V3)remembered /ɹɪˈmɛmbɚd/
Present participleremembering /ɹɪˈmɛm.b(ə.)ɹɪŋ/
Third person singularremembers

Remembered in a sentence

  • I remembered my father's concern for the tenant farmer and for the workers' need for collective bargaining.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104
  • She asks to be remembered to you all.
  • He's very security-conscious, so he would have remembered to lock the door.From the entry would
  • I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.From the entry comment
  • I almost walked out, except I remembered the promise I had made.From the entry except

Meaning of remember

  1. verb To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
  2. verb To memorize; to put something into memory.
  3. verb To keep in mind; to be mindful of.

Full definition of remember

Questions about the past tense of remember

What is the past tense of remember?
The past tense of remember is remembered.
What is the past participle of remember?
The past participle of remember is remembered.
Is remember a regular or irregular verb?
Remember is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: remember (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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