ate
意味
- eatの過去形
例文
When Tom was young, he ate three eggs every day.
トムは若かりし頃、卵を毎日３つ食べてました。
When was the last time that you ate a persimmon?
最後に柿を食べたのっていつ？
I quickly ate breakfast and then left the house.
私は急いで朝食を食べて、家を出た。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Probably a remodelling of earlier eat by analogy with other strong verbs such as break:†brake, give:gave, speak:†spake; compare the same process in rare Middle English at (“ate”) besides more usual et. However, the pronunciation /ɛt/ likely continues Middle English et, from Old English ǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ēt, with shortening as in e.g. thread.