Past simple and past participle
shrink
Shrink is an irregular verb: its past simple is shrank and its past participle is shrunk.
- Base form
- shrink
- Past simple
- shrank
- Past participle
- shrunk
- Definition
- Become or make smaller in size or amount.
- Example
- “The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand.”
- CEFR level
- B2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.