Past tense of fly: The word fly is an irregular verb which means travel (moves through the air). The past tense of the verb fly is flew. The four Principal forms of the verb fly are
Present Form: Fly (third-person singular flies)
Past Form: Flew
Past Participle: Flown
Present Participle: Flying
Learn: Past Tense of Talk
Conjugation of the Verb Fly Active Voice (Indicative Mood)
Simple Present Tense
- I/We/You/They fly
- He (She, It) flies
Simple Past Tense
- I/We/You/They flew
- He (She, It) flew
Future Simple Tense
- I/We shall fly
- You will fly
- He (She, It) will fly
- They will fly
Present Continuous Tense
- I am + present participle of fly
- We/You/They are + present participle of fly
- He (She, It) is + present participle of fly
Past Continuous Tense
- I was + present participle of fly
- We/You/They were + present participle of fly
- He (She, It) was + present participle of fly
Future Continuous Tense
- I/We/You/They will be + present participle of fly
- He (She, It) will be + present participle of fly
Present Perfect Tense
- I/We/You/They have flown
- He (She, It) has flown
Past Perfect Tense
- I/We/You/They had flown
- He (She, It) had flown
Future Perfect Tense
- I/You/ They/We shall/will have flown
- He (She, It) will/shall have flown
Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- I/You/We have been + present participle of fly
- He (She, It) has been + present participle of fly
- They have been + present participle of fly
Past Perfect Continuous Tense
- I/We/You had been + present participle of fly
- He (She, It) had been + present participle of fly
- They had been + present participle of fly
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- I/We/ They/You will have been + past participle of fly
- He (She, It) will have been + present participle of fly
Conjugation of the Verb Fly Passive Voice (Indicative Mood)
Simple Present Tense
- I am flown
- We are flown
- You are flown
- He (She, It) is flown
- They are flown
Simple Past Tense
- I was flown
- We/You/They were flown
- He (She, It) was flown
Future Simple Tense
- I shall be flown
- We shall be flown
- You will be flown
- He (She, It) will be flown
- They will be flown
Present Continuous Tense
- I am being flown
- We are being flown
- You are being flown
- He (She, It) is being flown
- They are being flown
Past Continuous Tense
- I was being flown
- We were being flown
- You were being flown
- He (She, It) was being flown
- They were being flown
Future Continuous Tense
- I will be being flown
- We will be being flown
- You will be being flown
- He (She, It) will be being flown
- They will be being flown
Present Perfect Tense of Fly
- I/We/You/They have been flown
- He (She, It) has been flown
Past Perfect Tense of Fly
- I/We/You/They had been flown
- He (She, It) had been flown
Future Perfect Tense
- I shall have been flown
- We shall have been flown
- You will have been flown
- He (She, It) will have been flown
- They will have been flown
Conjugation of the Verb Fly Active Voice (Subjunctive Mood)
Present Tense
- If I fly
- If we fly
- If you fly
- If he (she, it) fly
- If they fly
Past Tense
- If I flew
- If we flew
- If you flew
- If he (she, it) flew
- If they flew
Future Tense
- If I should fly
- If we should fly
- If you should fly
- If he (she, it) should fly
- If they should fly
Conjugation of the Verb Fly Passive Voice (Subjunctive Mood)
Present Tense
- If I be flown
- If we be flown
- If you be flown
- If he (she, it) be flown
- If they be flown
Past Tense
- If I were flown
- If we were flown
- If you were flown
- If he (she, it) were flown
- If they were flown
Future Tense
- If I should be flown
- If we should be flown
- If you should be flown
- If he (she, it) should be flown
- If they should be flown
Conditional with Fly
Present
- I should/would fly
- You would fly
- He/She/It would fly
- We should/would fly
- They would fly
Perfect
- I should/would have flown
- You/They would have flown
- We should/would have flown
- It/She/He should/would have flown
Fly Impersonal Forms
Infinitive: to fly
Perfect Infinitive: to have flown
Gerund: flying
Perfect Gerund: having flown
Participle: flown
Perfect Participle: having flown
Use Fly, Flew, Flying, Flown in Sentences
- She flies to London once a year.
- Are you flying tonight?
- They flew to Paris yesterday.
- The kids are flying kites in the park.
- The poor bird had finally flown.
