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Past tense of view

regular verb

The past tense of view is viewed. The past participle is also viewed.

Forms of view

Base form (V1)view /vjuː/
Past tense (V2)viewed /vjuːd/
Past participle (V3)viewed /vjuːd/
Present participleviewing /ˈvjuːɪŋ/
Third person singularviews /vjuːz/

Viewed in a sentence

  • The video was viewed by millions of people.
  • Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
  • A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.From the entry wood
  • Magoon's governorship in Cuba was viewed in a negative light by many Cuban historians for years thereafter.From the entry light
  • The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.From the entry disdain

Meaning of view

  1. noun The act of seeing or looking at something.
  2. noun The range of vision.
  3. noun Something to look at, such as scenery.

Full definition of view

Questions about the past tense of view

What is the past tense of view?
The past tense of view is viewed.
What is the past participle of view?
The past participle of view is viewed.
Is view a regular or irregular verb?
View is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: view (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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