Past tense of trot
regular verb
The past tense of trot is trotted. The past participle is also trotted.
Forms of trot
| Base form (V1) | trot /tɹɑt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | trotted |
| Past participle (V3) | trotted |
| Present participle | trotting /ˈtɹɒtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | trots |
Trotted in a sentence
- I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
- The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
- The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.From the entry hippopotamine
- The dog trotted hangtail away, and the prairie dog turned his head to check on a flush.1964, Kulchur - Volume 4, page 50. From the entry hangtail
- Polly trotted here and there with motions of taking gramma's hand, and so forth.1952, Louise Woodcock, Life and Ways of the Two-year-old, page 244. From the entry gramma
Meaning of trot
- noun A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- noun A brisk journey or progression.
- noun A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
Questions about the past tense of trot
- What is the past tense of trot?
- The past tense of trot is trotted.
- What is the past participle of trot?
- The past participle of trot is trotted.
- Is trot a regular or irregular verb?
- Trot is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trot (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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