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Past tense of share

regular verb

The past tense of share is shared. The past participle is also shared.

Forms of share

Base form (V1)share /ʃɛə/
Past tense (V2)shared /ʃɛːd/
Past participle (V3)shared /ʃɛːd/
Present participlesharing /ˈʃɛə.ɹɪŋ/
Third person singularshares /ʃɛəz/

Shared in a sentence

  • It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The...
  • The Kleine Scheidegg is quite a colony, with its railway station, shared by the Wengernalp and Jungfrau Railways, its commodious station buffet and two large hotels.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
  • I spend a lot of time thinking of Karen and the times we shared.From the entry think of
  • He works out of a small office shared with three others.From the entry work out
  • The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.From the entry creation

Meaning of share

  1. noun A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
  2. noun A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  3. noun A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

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Questions about the past tense of share

What is the past tense of share?
The past tense of share is shared.
What is the past participle of share?
The past participle of share is shared.
Is share a regular or irregular verb?
Share is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: share (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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