It´s time to study the pronunciation. How do we pronounce past form, the regular past form "-ed".

The ending used to form the past simple and past participle of regular verbs is pronounced:

• /t/ after voiceless sounds (/p/ /k/ /f/ /θ/ /s/ /ʃ/ /tʃ/).
  • love-loved.
• /d/ after voiced sounds (/b/ /g/ /v/ /ð/ /z/ /ʒ/ /dʒ/ /m/ /n/ /ŋ/ /l/ /r/ /w/ /j/ and vowel sounds).
  • play-played.
  • live-lived.
• /id/ after /t/ or /d/ sounds.
  • wait-waited.

Here there is one extra syllable!

Look around the pronunciation of the following past tenses:

Pronunciations of -ed endings.

Type of -ed endings.	Past tense.	Phonetic transcription.
/t/ infinitives that end in a voiceless sound.	picked stopped crunched wished	/pɪkt/ /stɒpt/ /krʌntʃt/ /wɪʃt/
/d/ infinitives that end in a voiced sound.	chilled lived tried enjoyed	/tʃɪld/ /lɪvd/ /traɪd/ /ɪnˈdʒɔɪd/
/ɪd/ infinitives that end in the sound /t/ or /d/.	hated needed seated dated	/ˈheɪtɪd/ /ˈniːdɪd/ /ˈsiːtɪd/ /ˈdeɪtɪd/