Past tense of stem
regular verb
The past tense of stem is stemmed. The past participle is also stemmed.
Forms of stem
| Base form (V1) | stem /stɛm/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | stemmed |
| Past participle (V3) | stemmed |
| Present participle | stemming |
| Third person singular | stems |
Stemmed in a sentence
- The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether.From the entry stem the tide
- The patient's gender issues stemmed from his overidentifying with his mother.From the entry overidentify
- The Canadian violet is a stemmed violet and easy to recognize by its tall stature.2003, Peter White, Wildflowers of the Smokies, page 64. From the entry Canadian violet
- Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.1986 March 23, Harold Bloom, “Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer”, in New York Times. From the entry agon
- The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of these transcendentals was real or intellectual (also called nominal).2012, Jean Grondin, “Metaphysics and Theology in the Middle Ages”, in Lukas Soderstrom, transl., Introduction to Metaphysics: From…. From the entry transcendental
Meaning of stem
- noun The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- noun A branch of a family.
- noun A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
Questions about the past tense of stem
- What is the past tense of stem?
- The past tense of stem is stemmed.
- What is the past participle of stem?
- The past participle of stem is stemmed.
- Is stem a regular or irregular verb?
- Stem is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stem (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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