Past simple and past participle
beget
Beget is an irregular verb: its past simple is begot and its past participle is begotten.
- Base form
- beget
- Past simple
- begot
- Past participle
- begotten
- Definition
- (Typically of a man, sometimes of a man and a woman) bring (a child) into existence by the process of reproduction.
- Example
- “They hoped that the King might beget an heir by his new queen.”
- CEFR level
- C2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.