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Past tense of shade

regular verb

The past tense of shade is shaded. The past participle is also shaded.

Forms of shade

Base form (V1)shade /ʃeɪd/
Past tense (V2)shaded
Past participle (V3)shaded
Present participleshading
Third person singularshades /ʃeɪdz/

Shaded in a sentence

  • The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
  • We shaded under a huge oak tree.
  • Plus”—he laughed—“everything was weirdly shaded, like it was lit by the moon.”2014, Elizabeth Fama, Plus One (Young Adult Fiction), →ISBN, page 231. From the entry Frinight
  • White tea budsets are shaded for approximately the final three weeks of their time on the bush.2011, Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide, →ISBN. From the entry budset
  • The front side of the porticoes is shaded by a double-curved eave-cornice of unpretended beauty.1982, Harihar Singh, Jaina Temples of Western India, page 230. From the entry unpretended

Meaning of shade

  1. noun Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
  2. noun Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
  3. noun A variety of a color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).

Full definition of shade

Questions about the past tense of shade

What is the past tense of shade?
The past tense of shade is shaded.
What is the past participle of shade?
The past participle of shade is shaded.
Is shade a regular or irregular verb?
Shade is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shade (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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