Past tense of time
regular verb
The past tense of time is timed. The past participle is also timed.
Forms of time
| Base form (V1) | time /taɪm/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | timed |
| Past participle (V3) | timed |
| Present participle | timing /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | times /taɪmz/ |
Timed in a sentence
- The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
- The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
- The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.From the entry attack
- The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.From the entry stunt
- The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.From the entry time out
Meaning of time
- noun The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- noun The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- noun A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Questions about the past tense of time
- What is the past tense of time?
- The past tense of time is timed.
- What is the past participle of time?
- The past participle of time is timed.
- Is time a regular or irregular verb?
- Time is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: time (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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