Past tense of sour
regular verb
The past tense of sour is soured. The past participle is also soured.
Forms of sour
| Base form (V1) | sour /ˈsaʊ.ə/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | soured |
| Past participle (V3) | soured |
| Present participle | souring |
| Third person singular | sours |
Soured in a sentence
- We broke up after our relationship soured.
- He soured on the trumpet, so she never heard it again.From the entry sour on
- He churned the milk as it soured and clabbered.2010, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Vintage Books, page 82. From the entry clabbered
- Brown soured on him soon after his arrival, and Francis played unspectacularly in 24 games, 15 of them as a starter.2007 January 3, Howard Beck, “Knicks’ Francis Is Forgotten, but Not Officially Gone”, in New York Times. From the entry unspectacularly
- Another food, kishkeh, is made “by adding 3.5 litres of leban (soured milk) to 2.5 kilograms of burghul.1999, Sharon Yntema, Christine Beard, New Vegetarian Baby, page 50. From the entry kishkeh
Meaning of sour
- adjective Tasting of acidity.
- adjective Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- adjective Tasting or smelling rancid.
Questions about the past tense of sour
- What is the past tense of sour?
- The past tense of sour is soured.
- What is the past participle of sour?
- The past participle of sour is soured.
- Is sour a regular or irregular verb?
- Sour is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sour (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.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of sour.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/sour. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.