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Past tense of “rise”

📈 To go up; to move higher.

Number 63 of 175 by frequency — common in reading and television, less so in your own speech, and three separate forms to keep apart. Recognising it is the priority.

Mistakes people make with “rise”

Not “rised”. Rise does not take -ed — the past simple is rose, however regular it feels to add the ending.

Not “have rose”. After have, has or had the verb switches to its third form: I have risen, never I have rose. This one survives into quite advanced English, so it is worth over-learning.

Do not confuse it with…

Rise happens by itself — prices rise, the sun rose. To move something else upwards you need raise, which is regular: raised, raised.

Phrases you will actually hear

These are worth learning whole. A verb sticks far better inside a phrase somebody would really say than on its own in a table.

The participle goes back to the base

rise · rose · risen. The past simple wanders off on its own, and then the participle returns to the base form and adds -n: rise → risen, with rose having nothing to do with it.

Getting this backwards is the classic slip — building the participle out of the past instead of the base. That -n is the oldest participle ending in English, older than -ed, and it survives on the largest group of verbs on this site.

Either way the ending does the work for you. A form ending in -n needs have, has, had or a passive be in front of it; without one it stands alone as the past — The sun rose at six this morning.

The same pattern — the -en finishers — runs through 48 verbs: