Past tense of strike
irregular verb
The past tense of strike is struck. The past participle is also struck.
Forms of strike
| Base form (V1) | strike /stɹaɪk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | struck /stɹʌk/ |
| Past participle (V3) | struck /stɹʌk/ |
| Present participle | striking /ˈstɹaɪkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | strikes /stɹaɪks/ |
Less standard forms: striked (nonstandard).
Struck in a sentence
- Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose. A bullet struck him. The ship struck a reef.
- The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work.2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8
- Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.From the entry look
- The experience struck a string in him that turned into a lifetime hobby.From the entry string
- You can tell you've struck a nerve when even the crowd stops laughing.From the entry tell
Meaning of strike
- verb To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- verb To hit.
- verb To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
Questions about the past tense of strike
- What is the past tense of strike?
- The past tense of strike is struck.
- What is the past participle of strike?
- The past participle of strike is struck.
- Is strike a regular or irregular verb?
- Strike is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
- Is striked correct?
- striked is marked nonstandard in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of strike is struck.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: strike (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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