Try Past Tense
What are the forms of the verb try? The verb try is a regular verb. We can make the past tense and the past participle of it by replacing y at the end with -ied. The following are the forms of the try.
Meaning: to attempt to do something
Infinitive: to try
Present Form: Try (third-person singular Tries)
Past Form: Tried
Past Participle: Tried
Present Participle: Trying
Synonyms
tax, strain, stretch, test
Conjugation of Try Present, Past and Past Participle
Present Simple Tense
- I/We try
- He/She/It tries
- You/They try
Past Simple Tense
- I/We tried
- He/She/It tried
- You/They tried
Future Simple Tense
- I/We will try
- He/She/It will try
- You/They will try
Present Continuous Tense
- I am trying
- He/She/It is trying
- We/You/They are trying
Past Continuous Tense
- I was trying
- He/She/It was trying
- We/You/They were trying
Future Continuous Tense
- I will be trying
- He/She/It will be trying
- We/You/They will be trying
Present Perfect Tense
- I/We have tried
- He/She/It has tried
- You/They have tried
Past Perfect Tense
- I/We had tried
- He/She/It had tried
- You/They had tried
Future Perfect Tense
- I/We will have tried
- He/She/It will have tried
- You/They will have tried
Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- I/We have been trying
- He/She/It has been trying
- You/They have been trying
Past Perfect Continuous Tense
- I/We had been trying
- He/She/It had been trying
- You/They had been trying
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- I/We will have been trying
- He/She/It will have been trying
- You/They will have been trying
Conjugating Try Subjunctive Mood
Present
- If I try
- If we try
- if you try
- If he (she, it) try
- If they try
Past
- If I tried
- If we tried
- If you tried
- If he (she, it) tried
- If they tried
Future
- If I should try
- If we should try
- If you should try
- If he (she, it) should try
- If they should try
Conditional
Present
- I should/would try
- You would try
- He/She/It would try
- We should/would try
- They would try
Perfect
- I should/would have tried
- You would have tried
- He/She/It would have tried
- We should/would have tried
- They would have tried
Example Sentences
- They can do it if they try.
- We have tried hard, but I can’t convince her to attend the party.
- Keep trying. You can do it.
- I didn’t try that method; she told me last night.
- She can pass the paper if she tries hard enough.
