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dig – dug – dug underdig – underdug – underdug: Past form dug developed by analogy with stick–stuck; [3] originally weak: dive – dived/dove – dived/dove: Weak: The alternative dove (found mainly in American usage) arose by analogy with strong verbs do (does /dʌz/) – did – done bedo (bedoes) – bedid – bedone misdo (misdoes ...
what is the past tense of the word "dig"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Isyong (talk • contribs) 02:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC) It is "dug" in modern English, and the past participle is "dug" also. See the list of English irregular verbs. You might find the obsolete form "digged" in some old translations of the Bible.
Dug may refer to: past tense of dig; nipple of a female mammal; Dug, Phagwara, a village in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India; Doug Pinnick (dUg), an American musician; An alien race in Star Wars; A talking dog in the Pixar movie Up; A fictional character in the 2019 Indian animated series Chacha Chaudhary; Scots for dog
Dawn represents the past ... Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ... dug is digging will dig dig! used to dig digs RA-nu -nangi
Some dogs dig to escape or go around barriers, like fences. While others dig because it is fun for them. A dog looking for an afternoon's activity might turn to digging to beat the boredom blues.
Differences between the past tense and past participle (as in sing–sang–sung, rise–rose–risen) generally appear in the case of verbs that continue the strong conjugation, or in a few cases weak verbs that have acquired strong-type forms by analogy – as with show (regular past tense showed, strong-type past participle shown).
The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past. Examples of verbs in the past tense include the English verbs sang , went and washed . Most languages have a past tense, with some having several types in order to indicate how far back the action took place.
A false analogy with other verbs caused dug to become thought of as the 'correct' preterite and past participle form of dig (the King James Bible preferred digged in 1611) and more recent examples, like snuck from sneak and dove from dive, have similarly become popular. Some American English dialects also use the non-standard drug as the past ...