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Past tense of stick

irregular verb

The past tense of stick is stuck. The past participle is also stuck.

Forms of stick

Base form (V1)stick /stɪk/
Past tense (V2)stuck /stʌk/
Past participle (V3)stuck /stʌk/
Present participlesticking /ˈstɪkɪŋ/
Third person singularsticks /stɪks/

Past tense of stick by meaning

  1. to become or remain attached; to adhere.: stuck
  2. to cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.: sticked

Stuck in a sentence

  • Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
  • His old nickname stuck.
  • I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.From the entry religion
  • He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.From the entry zipper
  • One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.From the entry fight

Meaning of stick

  1. noun A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
  2. noun A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
  3. noun A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

Full definition of stick

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Questions about the past tense of stick

What is the past tense of stick?
The past tense of stick is stuck.
What is the past participle of stick?
The past participle of stick is stuck.
Is stick a regular or irregular verb?
Stick is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stick (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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