cost
Base form
cost
/kɒst//kɔːst/
Past simple
cost
/kɒst//kɔːst/
Past participle
cost
/kɒst//kɔːst/
MeaningA1
to have a particular price
it costs an arm and a leg
In use
- Question · Form 1How much did your new phone cost in the end?
- After a modal verb · Form 1The repairs could cost more than the car is worth.
- Past simple · Form 2The concert tickets cost forty pounds each last summer.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday a taxi to the airport cost us sixty pounds.
- Present perfect · Form 3The new stadium has cost over a billion pounds so far.
- Past perfect · Form 3His mistake had cost the team the match.
Watch out
Cost for a price: it cost £10. Costed means worked out what something will cost: the plan was costed.
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