Past tense of surface
regular verb
The past tense of surface is surfaced. The past participle is also surfaced.
Forms of surface
| Base form (V1) | surface /ˈsɜː.fɪs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | surfaced |
| Past participle (V3) | surfaced |
| Present participle | surfacing |
| Third person singular | surfaces |
Surfaced in a sentence
- The crew surfaced the road with bitumen.
- There was great relief when the missing diver finally surfaced.
- John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.From the entry complicate
- Corpses surfaced near Portsmouth - was one of them Buster Crabb? Or were neither of them?From the entry neither
- After the deadly shooting attack at Barnoar, liberal homophobia surfaced along with support for the community.2013 June, Aeyal Gross, “Israel's liberal homophobia”, in ILGA. From the entry liberal homophobia
Meaning of surface
- noun The external boundary of an object or body.
- noun The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- noun The outside hull of a tangible object.
Questions about the past tense of surface
- What is the past tense of surface?
- The past tense of surface is surfaced.
- What is the past participle of surface?
- The past participle of surface is surfaced.
- Is surface a regular or irregular verb?
- Surface is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: surface (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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