Past tense of saw
regular verb
The past tense of saw is sawed. The past participle is sawed or sawn.
Forms of saw
| Base form (V1) | saw /sɔː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sawed |
| Past participle (V3) | sawed sawn |
| Present participle | sawing |
| Third person singular | saws |
Sawed and sawn in a sentence
- Locally sawn lumber—whether from small mills, local yards, or urban logs—often shows much more variation.2026 August, Logan Wittmer, “Whiskey Cabinet”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 53
- It WAS a puddytat! I sawed it! I sawed it!From the entry sawed
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:sawed gourds.From the entry sawed gourds
- Wouldn't all fit in the back, so we sawed it halfwise.2018, Ashwin Sunder, Fear of Dreaming, page 331. From the entry halfwise
- They sawed and hacked and somehow managed to acquire hearthfuls of fuel to see them through.1996, John B. Keane, More Irish Stories for Christmas, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry hearthful
Meaning of saw
- noun Such a tool with a toothed blade.
- noun Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
- noun A musical saw.
Questions about the past tense of saw
- What is the past tense of saw?
- The past tense of saw is sawed.
- What is the past participle of saw?
- The past participle of saw is sawed or sawn.
- Is saw a regular or irregular verb?
- Saw is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: saw (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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