Pronunciations (8)
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/d/
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/t/
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/ɪd/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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/ɪd/
Pronunciation notes
- US
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/əd/
Pronunciation notes
- US
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/əd/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
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/əd/
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/dəd/
Suffix
Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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live + -ed → lived
Once upon a time a little princess lived with her mother in a lonely castle.
More examples (2)
Jose phoned five minutes ago.
He x'ed two boxes on the voting form.
Suffix
Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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point + -ed → pointed
He has pointed at the dog.
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There's the abandoned mineshaft.
Refused entry to the club, I walked back home.
Suffix
Used to form possessional adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
Usage- morpheme
- Antonyms
- Examples
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point + -ed → pointed
horn + -ed → horned
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hoof + -ed → hooved
chagrin + -ed → chagrined
As an extension of the above, used to form possessional adjectives from adjective-noun pairs.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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red + hair + -ed → red-haired
left + hand + -ed → left-handed
More examples (1)
two + prong(s) + -ed → two-pronged