Irregular verb · #145 by frequency

tread — past tense and past participle

Basetreadtred

Past simpletrodtrɒd

Past participletroddenˈtrɒdən

In a sentence

Base: Hikers tread carefully across the icy trail.

Past simple: She trod softly so she wouldn't wake the baby.

Past participle: The path had been trodden by many boots.

Translations

Españolpisar

Françaisfouler

Русскийступать

Українськаступати

Deutschtreten

Portuguêspisar

Italianocalpestare

Polskideptać

Türkçebasmak

Pattern

One of a kind

Verbs whose forms follow no reusable pattern: be, go, do, have. Pure memorization, and the highest-frequency verbs in the language — so they get drilled first regardless.

Same pattern

be do go see come give

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← thrust undertake →