Understand: understand – understood – understood

Irregular verb, level A2.

A2 · Elementary
Base form (V1)understand
Past simple (V2)understood
Past participle (V3)understood

Meaning

To know the meaning of something.

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Examples for each form

Base form (V1)
I don't understand this word.

Past simple (V2)
She understood the question at once.

Past participle (V3)
Have you understood the lesson?

Check yourself

Write the past simple and the past participle of understand.

Verbs that change the same way

Past simple and past participle are the same

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