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Past tense of test

regular verb

The past tense of test is tested. The past participle is also tested.

Forms of test

Base form (V1)test /tɛst/
Past tense (V2)tested /ˈtɛstɪd/
Past participle (V3)tested /ˈtɛstɪd/
Present participletesting /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/
Third person singulartests /tɛsts/

Tested in a sentence

  • Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  • Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 Apr...
  • To get your eyes tested, you should basically go to the optician's.From the entry basically
  • Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.From the entry comprehension
  • She tested the sample with a durometer to verify its consistency.From the entry durometer

Meaning of test

  1. noun A challenge, trial.
  2. noun An examination, given often during the academic term.
  3. noun A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

Full definition of test

Questions about the past tense of test

What is the past tense of test?
The past tense of test is tested.
What is the past participle of test?
The past participle of test is tested.
Is test a regular or irregular verb?
Test is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: test (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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