chopped

chopped — verb

1. past simple and past participle form of the verb 'chop', which means to cut some

1.verbB1
Definition

past simple and past participle form of the verb 'chop', which means to cut something into smaller pieces using a knife, an axe, or another sharp tool.

Example

Naoko chopped the carrots into small cubes for the salad.

past simple active: chopped + noun + into + pieces

The firewood was chopped and stacked by the volunteers before the storm arrived.

passive form: was/were chopped

Grammar Patterns

chopped + noun phrase

was/were chopped

has/have chopped

had chopped

Usage Note

This entry covers only the inflected verb form 'chopped'. For the full range of meanings — including the present-tense verb, the noun senses (piece of meat with bone, cutting motion), and the idiomatic expressions — look up the base word 'chop'.

Common Mistakes

He chooped the onions.
He chopped the onions.
'chop' is a regular verb; the past form adds -ed without doubling the p before a single vowel.

Word family

  • chop
    verbB1
  • chop
    nounB1
  • chopper
    nounB2
  • choppy
    adjectiveB2

Etymology

Old FrenchEnglish

'Chopped' is the past-tense and past-participle form of 'chop', which entered English from Old French 'choper' (to cut off) and can be traced further back to Latin or possibly a Germanic root. Like most regular English verbs, 'chop' adds the -ed suffix to form both the simple past and the past participle.