Irregular VerbsPast tense of “wake”: woke, woken
The verb “wake” is irregular: its past simple is “woke” and its past participle is “woken”.
Base form (V1)
wake
/weɪk/
Past simple (V2)
woke
/wəʊk/
Past participle (V3)
woken
/ˈwəʊkən/
Meaning
to stop sleeping
Example
I woke up at five o'clock.
Pattern
ABC — all three forms are different
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