Past tense of save
regular verb
The past tense of save is saved. The past participle is also saved.
Forms of save
| Base form (V1) | save /seɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | saved /seɪvd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | saved /seɪvd/ |
| Present participle | saving /ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | saves /seɪvz/ |
Saved in a sentence
- She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
- Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
- Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.From the entry life
- Those nerf nets may look weird, but they've saved me a lot of pain.From the entry nerf net
- I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.From the entry bob
Meaning of save
- verb To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- verb To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- verb To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
Questions about the past tense of save
- What is the past tense of save?
- The past tense of save is saved.
- What is the past participle of save?
- The past participle of save is saved.
- Is save a regular or irregular verb?
- Save is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: save (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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