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Past tense of transition

regular verb

The past tense of transition is transitioned. The past participle is also transitioned.

Forms of transition

Base form (V1)transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/
Past tense (V2)transitioned
Past participle (V3)transitioned
Present participletransitioning
Third person singulartransitions

Transitioned in a sentence

  • The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
  • Eric told me that after he transitioned, he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.2006, Taylor J. Holder, All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender, →ISBN
  • Pattaya transitioned from fishing village to open-air brothel.2019, Luke Williams, Down and Out in Paradise: East, West, Sex, Death, Echo, →ISBN. From the entry Pattaya
  • Much like other microtrends, grandpacore has seamlessly transitioned from the high-fashion runways to the world of TikTok, proving that it's no exception to the influential runway-to-social-media pipeline.2024 March 3, Shelby Comroe, “Goodbye Coastal Grandmother, Hello Grandpacore”, in InStyle, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024. From the entry microtrend

Meaning of transition

  1. noun The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
  2. noun A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
  3. noun A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

Full definition of transition

Questions about the past tense of transition

What is the past tense of transition?
The past tense of transition is transitioned.
What is the past participle of transition?
The past participle of transition is transitioned.
Is transition a regular or irregular verb?
Transition is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transition (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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