Question

What is the past tense of hide?

Answer 1

Hint: Tenses are very important in English grammar as they tell about the time when the action has taken place if we do not use correct tenses the communication will not only be grammatically incorrect but will also be hampered due to lack of clarity. There are 3 main tenses which are present, past and future. These are further categorised into perfect, continuous, simple and perfect continuous tenses. Thus, in total there are 12 tenses.

Complete answer:
Past tense is the tense that tells that some action has already happened.

Hide is the infinitive form of the verb or present tense. It is an irregular verb. Irregular verbs are verbs that do not have a similar kind of ending. Most of the past forms end with -ed. But the past tense of ‘hide’ does not end with -ed. Past tense of hide is hid.

Since ‘hid’ ends with ‘d’, it is a weak verb. Weak verbs are the verbs that end with ‘ed’, ‘d’ or ‘t’ in the past forms of their verbs. The change in the tense is also known as the conjugation of the verb.

Explaining the change through an example:
I hide in my room whenever we play.(Present tense)
I hid in my room when we were playing. (past tense)

Note: The irregular verbs mostly have different past and past participle forms. For e.g. Fall, fell, fallen or sink, sank, sunk. Sometimes they can also be the same. For e.g. Run, ran,ran. Some irregular verbs don’t change their forms at all.