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strive

What is the past tense of strive?

The past tense of strive is strove, and the past participle is striven.

Strive is an irregular (strong) verb: the vowel changes instead of adding -ed.

All forms of strive

as a verb

base
strive
past tense
strove
past participle
striven
present participle
striving
third-person singular
strives