What is the past tense of forgive?
The past tense of forgive is forgave, and the past participle is forgiven.
Forgive is an irregular (strong) verb: the vowel changes instead of adding -ed.
All forms of forgive
as a verb
- base
- forgive
- past tense
- forgave
- past participle
- forgiven
- present participle
- forgiving
- third-person singular
- forgives