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Past tense of split

irregular verb

The past tense of split is split. The past participle is also split.

Forms of split

Base form (V1)split /splɪt/
Past tense (V2)split /splɪt/
Past participle (V3)split /splɪt/
Present participlesplitting /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/
Third person singularsplits /splɪts/

Meaning of split

  1. verb To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  2. verb Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  3. verb To share; to divide.

Full definition of split

Verbs like split

Questions about the past tense of split

What is the past tense of split?
The past tense of split is split.
What is the past participle of split?
The past participle of split is split.
Is split a regular or irregular verb?
Split is an irregular verb: its past tense keeps the same form as the base form.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: split (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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