What is the passed tense for "to text"? Texted or text?

Question

because my co-workers and i are arguing about it.. is it "i texted him yesteday" or is it "i text him yesterday?"

i'm so confused.

Answer 1

I used to feel uncomfortable saying the word texted, but then both sounds right to me. You would know it's wrong, usually because of the way it sounds. Sometimes I think it's safer to say "I sent him a text message yesterday."

Edit:
I researched on the word, and this is according to dictionary.com :

text·ed, text·ing, texts

1. To send a text message to: She texted me when she arrived.
2. To communicate by text message: He texted that he would be late.

So I guess the answer there is pretty obvious. :) Good luck!

Answer 2

New verbs, notably bobbing up from science, most most of the time enter the language as commonplace verbs, so infinitive -previous simple - past participle could be "text" - "texted" - "texted". Become aware of how we use other new verbs, "to google" "to twitter", for example. I, myself use "text" for the prior easy, just my personal alternative due to the fact that I to find the word "texted" unpleasant and too long to say and spell. In the context there is no confusion, like there's no confusion with the verb "put". Nonetheless, the vast majority of persons look to be utilising the cumbersome "texted". Or will have to that be "txtd"?

Answer 3

Texted.

Answer 4

Texted sounds reasonable to me

Answer 5

I'd say "I texted him yesterday".

Answer 6

"Wasted"...as in "life" or "time"