build
Base form
build
/bɪld/
Past simple
built
/bɪlt/
Past participle
built
/bɪlt/
MeaningA1
to make something by putting parts together
to build a house
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1The council will build a new school next to the park.
- Question · Form 1Did your grandfather really build this house himself?
- Past simple · Form 2Last weekend the kids built a huge snowman in the garden.
- Past simple · Form 2My uncle built the shelves in our living room last month.
- Passive · Form 3The castle on the hill was built in the twelfth century.
- Present perfect · Form 3They’ve built a lot of new flats near the station recently.
Watch out
Built keeps the silent u and ends in -t, like spent: builded and bilt are both wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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