dig
Base form
dig
/dɪɡ/
Past simple
dug
/dʌɡ/
Past participle
dug
/dʌɡ/
MeaningB2
to make a hole in the ground
to dig your own grave
In use
- Imperative · Form 1Dig a hole about twice as wide as the roots.
- After a modal verb · Form 1We should dig up those old potatoes this weekend.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday the dog dug a huge hole under the fence.
- Past simple · Form 2Last spring we dug a small pond at the bottom of the garden.
- Passive · Form 3The tunnel was dug by hand over twenty years.
- Present perfect · Form 3Builders have dug up the whole street outside our flat.
Watch out
Dug changes the vowel to u, like stuck and struck: digged and dugged are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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