Past simple and past participle
spend
Spend is an irregular verb: its past simple is spent and its past participle is spent.
- Base form
- spend
- Past simple
- spent
- Past participle
- spent
- Definition
- Pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services.
- Example
- “The firm has spent $100,000 on hardware and software.”
- CEFR level
- A2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The past simple and the past participle are the same, like bring, brought, brought.