Past tense of survive
regular verb
The past tense of survive is survived. The past participle is also survived.
Forms of survive
| Base form (V1) | survive /səˈvaɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | survived |
| Past participle (V3) | survived |
| Present participle | surviving |
| Third person singular | survives |
Survived in a sentence
- Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.
- Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.
- The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.From the entry storm
- He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.From the entry break
- The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.From the entry rabbit
Meaning of survive
- verb Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
- verb Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
- verb To live past (a life-threatening event).
Questions about the past tense of survive
- What is the past tense of survive?
- The past tense of survive is survived.
- What is the past participle of survive?
- The past participle of survive is survived.
- Is survive a regular or irregular verb?
- Survive is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: survive (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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