Past tense of take
irregular verb
The past tense of take is took. The past participle is taken.
Forms of take
| Base form (V1) | take /ˈteɪ̯k/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | took /tʊk/ |
| Past participle (V3) | taken /ˈteɪ.kn̩/ |
| Present participle | taking /ˈteɪkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | takes /teɪks/ |
Took and taken in a sentence
- They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
- She took the policeman’s helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.1963, Margery Allingham, “Meeting Point”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 232
- The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.From the entry abbreviated
- After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.From the entry about
- It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.From the entry absent-minded
Meaning of take
- verb To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- verb To seize or capture.
- verb To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
Verbs like take
Questions about the past tense of take
- What is the past tense of take?
- The past tense of take is took.
- What is the past participle of take?
- The past participle of take is taken.
- Is take a regular or irregular verb?
- Take is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: take (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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