What is the past tense of overtake?
The past tense of overtake is over-took, and the past participle is over-taken.
Overtake is an irregular (strong) verb: the vowel changes instead of adding -ed.
All forms of overtake
as a verb
- base
- overtake
- past tense
- over-took
- past participle
- over-taken
- present participle
- over-taking
- third-person singular
- over-takes