Past simple and past participle
undertake
Undertake is an irregular verb: its past simple is undertook and its past participle is undertaken.
- Base form
- undertake
- Past simple
- undertook
- Past participle
- undertaken
- Definition
- Commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on.
- Example
- “A firm of builders undertook the construction work.”
- CEFR level
- C1On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.