What’s the Past Tense of Hide? Is it Hid or Hidden?
To hide is the present tense. Hid is the simple past, and hidden is the participle form of the verb hide.
What’s the past tense of sleep? Or wake, ride, bite, write and draw? Each verb has its corresponding present, past and future tenses (altogether, there are 12 tenses in English).
If you need clarification on the tenses and the various verb forms, look no further. But make no mistake: verb tenses in English are confusing. Listen closely, and you’ll hear how they’re constantly confused. That said, understanding the correct conjugations of different tenses, and what the different tenses mean is integral to understanding the structure of language as a whole.
There are 4 past tenses (the simple past, the past continuous, the past perfect and the past perfect continuous tense).
To hide is the present tense. Hid is the simple past, and hidden is the participle form of the verb hide.
To tear is the present tense; tore is the simple past tense. Torn is the past participle.
To ride is the present tense. Rode is the simple past, and ridden is the past participle.
Rise is present simple tense. Rose is the past tense, and has risen is the participle form of the verb.
The verb tell has two forms: tell and told. Told is the past tense, and the past participle form of tell.
Bite is present tense, bit is the simple past, and ‘bitten’ is the past participle verb form.
The verb teach has two forms altogether: to teach (present tense), and taught (past tense and past participle form of the verb, teach).
To ‘blow a bubble’, is the present simple tense. ‘I blew the job interview’, is the past simple, and ‘I’ve blown the opportunity,’ is the past participle.
The verb catch has two forms, to catch, and caught, which is both the past tense and participle form of catch.
The verb, to win, is present tense. Win only has two forms: win and won. Won is the past simple and past participle.