Past simple and past participle
deal
Deal is an irregular verb: its past simple is dealt and its past participle is dealt.
- Base form
- deal
- Past simple
- dealt
- Past participle
- dealt
- Definition
- Take part in commercial trading of a particular commodity.
- Example
- “Directors were prohibited from dealing in the company's shares.”
- CEFR level
- B1On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The past simple and the past participle are the same, like bring, brought, brought.