Past tense of star
regular verb
The past tense of star is starred. The past participle is also starred.
Forms of star
| Base form (V1) | star /stɑː(ɹ)/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | starred /ˈstɑː(ɹ)d/ |
| Past participle (V3) | starred /ˈstɑː(ɹ)d/ |
| Present participle | starring |
| Third person singular | stars /stɑɹz/ |
Starred in a sentence
- She starred in dozens of silent movies.
- The beturbaned mystic was especially mysterious-looking in his starred headwear.From the entry beturbaned
- Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.From the entry greats
- After Princess Diaries, she starred in Grey's Anatomy as THE Dr.2022 July 20, Jake Farrington, ““The Princess Diaries” Turns 21 This Week — Here’s What The Cast Is Up To Now”, in BuzzFeed, archived from…. From the entry theydy
- So he lost it all when he got starred up: sent to adult prison.2011, Jonathan Trigell, Boy A, page 189. From the entry star up
Meaning of star
- noun Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
- noun A planet thought to influence one's fate; (figuratively) fate or luck.
- noun A very massive ball of plasma with strong enough gravity to have ongoing fusion of hydrogen or heavier elements in its core. In strict technical usage, the Sun is included.
Questions about the past tense of star
- What is the past tense of star?
- The past tense of star is starred.
- What is the past participle of star?
- The past participle of star is starred.
- Is star a regular or irregular verb?
- Star is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: star (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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