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how to spell jumped

Compact form card for 'jumped' with IPA, grammatical relation, examples, and a brief pronunciation boundary

A closer look

jumped /dʒʌmpt/ is the past simple and past participle of jump. The written e is silent; /dʒʌmp/ plus /t/ makes the final ed sound like /t/. He jumped the queue and everyone noticed.

Jumped is spelled j-u-m-p-e-d: the base form jump plus the -ed ending. This spelling is the past simple form of jump, so it works on its own in sentences like He jumped the queue.

  • Jumped also serves as the past participle, so after has the same spelling appears again: nothing changes in form.

  • Say /dʒʌmpt/ slowly a couple of times and the spelling jumped will feel automatic.

A small pronunciation note

One small trap in this word: jumped is just jump /dʒʌmp/ with one written syllable more, no extra vowel letter. Write jumped, never jumpped or jumpt; the single e is silent and the d spells /t/ after /p/.

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