Learn English – “I woke up at 6am” or “I waked up at 6am”

past-tenseverbs

I would like to know which one is right and more common to use?

"I woke up at 6am" or "I waked up at 6am"?

Best Answer

Technically speaking

According to http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-wake.html , both forms (woke/waked) are correct.

Usage-wise

At least for American English, in my experience "woke" as the past tense of "wake" is always used. Personally, I never knew that "waked" was a proper form of "wake" until reading the above link.

From the answer by @Janus Bahs Jacquet in the following link:

In current English, woke is the standard past tense of wake, both transitive and intransitive, causative or not; waked is marked as nonstandard (dialectical) or archaic, and it’s nowhere near as common as woke.

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