Past simple and past participle
tread
Tread is an irregular verb: its past simple is trod and its past participle is trodden.
- Base form
- tread
- Past simple
- trod
- Past participle
- trodden
- Definition
- Walk in a specified way.
- Example
- “The administration had to tread carefully so as not to offend the judiciary.”
- CEFR level
- C2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.