awake
Base form
awake
/əˈweɪk/
Past simple
awokeawoke / awaked
/əˈwəʊk//əˈwəʊk/ /əˈweɪkt/
Past participle
awoken
/əˈwəʊkən/
MeaningC1
to wake up, or to wake someone (formal)
to awake to the risks
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1The noise might awake the whole house.
- Question · Form 1Did anything awake you in the night?
- Past simple · Form 2Last night I awoke at three and couldn’t get back to sleep.
- Past simple · Form 2This morning the children awoke to find snow everywhere.
- Passive · Form 3We were awoken by a loud crash at dawn.
- Past perfect · Form 3By the time the sun rose, the whole village had awoken.
Watch out
Awoke, awoken: the same change as woke, woken. Awoked and awokened are wrong; awake is also an adjective: I’m awake.
Same pattern
A — B — CAll three forms differ
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