Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense wakes , present participle waking , past tense woke , past participle woken language note: The form waked is used in American English for the past tense. When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep.

Is waked correct?

For example, not even that nagging English teacher is likely to know that the past participial form of “wake up” is “waked up.” ... “Woken,” in British English, is the past participle not of “wake up” but of just plain old “wake.” But American English prefers “waked.”

Can we say waked?

3 Answers. We can say either sentence, but waked is used far less often than woke. He just woke up. The two sentences have almost the same meaning, and we often use them interchangeably.