hurt
Base form
hurt
/hɜːt//hɜːrt/
Past simple
hurt
/hɜːt//hɜːrt/
Past participle
hurt
/hɜːt//hɜːrt/
MeaningA2
to cause pain or injury
to hurt someone’s feelings
In use
- Negative · Form 1Be careful, you don’t want to hurt yourself on that knife.
- After a modal verb · Form 1These new shoes might hurt your feet at first.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday I hurt my back lifting a heavy box.
- Past simple · Form 2Last season Ben hurt his knee in a football match.
- Passive · Form 3Nobody was hurt in the accident on the motorway.
- Present perfect · Form 3I’m sorry if I’ve hurt your feelings.
Watch out
Your back hurts, or you hurt it: I hurted my knee → I hurt my knee. Never hurten.
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