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Past tense of repair

regular verb

The past tense of repair is repaired. The past participle is also repaired.

Forms of repair

Base form (V1)repair /ɹɪˈpɛə/
Past tense (V2)repaired /ɹɪˈpɛɹd/
Past participle (V3)repaired /ɹɪˈpɛɹd/
Present participlerepairing
Third person singularrepairs

Repaired in a sentence

  • That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 47
  • Please try to repair the two earbuds to each other. Place both earbuds back into the charging case, wait for four seconds, then open it and see if they have been repaired with one another.
  • The car could not be repaired in time for the race and did not run.From the entry run
  • It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!From the entry fix
  • I have a much better mouthfeel since my broken tooth has been repaired.From the entry mouthfeel

Meaning of repair

  1. verb To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
  2. verb To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
  3. noun The act of repairing something.

Full definition of repair

Questions about the past tense of repair

What is the past tense of repair?
The past tense of repair is repaired.
What is the past participle of repair?
The past participle of repair is repaired.
Is repair a regular or irregular verb?
Repair is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: repair (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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