lived

Lived is the past tense and past participle of the English verb live. It describes a state or action that occurred or endured in the past, such as residing in a place or being alive during a period. In everyday use, it appears in simple past sentences like She lived in Paris for five years, and in perfect tenses like They have lived there since 1990.

As a past participle, lived forms the present perfect, past perfect, and passive constructions when combined with auxiliary verbs.

Although primarily a verb form, lived also appears in fixed phrases such as "lived experience," where it functions adjectivally to indicate that something is based on actual life experience rather than theory: lived experience shapes understanding.

Etymology: The verb live derives from Old English lifian or līfan, linked to the noun life (Old English līf). It is cognate with German leben and Dutch leven. The regular past tense is formed by adding -ed to the base form, though pronunciation changes: live (/lɪv/) vs. lived (/lɪvd/).

Common related forms: present tense live, gerund living, past participle lived. Pronunciation: the base form is typically pronounced /lɪv/ in American English, while the past tense /lɪvd/ rhymes with "loved."