feed
Base form
feed
/fiːd/
Past simple
fed
/fed/
Past participle
fed
/fed/
MeaningA2
to give food to a person or animal
to feed the ducks
In use
- Question · Form 1Did you feed the cat before you left?
- Negative · Form 1Please don’t feed the animals at the zoo.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday afternoon we fed the ducks in the park with oats.
- Past simple · Form 2Last weekend Aisha fed twenty people at her birthday party.
- Present perfect · Form 3Has anyone fed the goldfish in the classroom today?
- Passive · Form 3The baby is fed every three hours at the moment.
Watch out
Fed has a short e: feeded and fedded are wrong. You also meet it in fed up (= bored and annoyed).
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