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i became a father vs i become father

The correct phrase is "I became a father." This is the past simple tense, which indicates that the action of becoming a father has already happened. "I become father" is incorrect.
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Last updated: July 29, 2024

i became a father

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that at a certain point in the past, the speaker became a father.

Examples:

  • When my son was born, I became a father.
  • Last year, I became a father for the first time.
  • He became a father at a young age.
  • After the birth of his daughter, he became a father.
  • The moment he held his newborn baby, he became a father.
  • [ARTURO] When I became a father I understood that parents have two basic tasks the first one is defending their sons from the evil of the world the second is to help you recognise it.
  • You see, I just became a father, too.
  • Well, I just became a father to a baby and have been looking everywhere for his mom.
  • I never became a father because I never felt it was the right time.
  • I became a husband, A father.
  • The boy grew up and also became a father.
  • But time passed when we stop seeing each other. Kent became a father, with their own children.
  • You realise you've been uncommonly dull since you became a father?
  • You want to die just when you became a father?
  • I became their father and they became my sons.
  • The father became a child in that park with Sebastian.
  • After the war, my father became a union member.
  • I became acquainted with your father yesterday.
  • So the father became a daddy?
  • The story spread throughout the castle My father became a laughingstock
  • He became as a father to me, and the Empress, a mother.
  • Then I was born, and my father became a successful architect
  • After the war, my father became a civil servant
  • All this to tell you that if my father became a forger, actually, it was almost by accident.
  • Where you became my new father.

i become father

This phrase is incorrect in English.

  • Since when I become my father?
  • I tried to go towards her but I become my father's daughter
  • Thinking of them myself, I become a father, then a mother,
  • Here I thought you'd become father of the year, but you just got stuck.
  • Meanwhile I have become the father of sixty-two children... but this gives me no satisfaction.
  • And I have become the best father that has ever existed.
  • I think... once I decided to become a father, I was looking forward to it.
  • And perhaps, in the little time left to me, I can become the father you deserve.
  • Under stressful situations, I can become what my father affectionately calls "a prissy little prat."
  • (I have become her father, her lover, her husband.)
  • You asked me to become Father's instrument against the Resistance.
  • When men become fathers, they undergo biochemical changes that affect the way they think.
  • There is contemplation we need to do together before we become father and mother to our people.
  • Do you know that my nephew and his husband are about to become fathers?
  • Friends of yours have become fathers of grown up children and you're still a bachelor!
  • So an abusive father becomes a monster.
  • You've become a father for the third time.
  • Because we cannot allow Korath to become our father's favorite.
  • You've become your father's son.
  • A man becomes a father when he sees his baby.

Alternatives:

  • I become a father
  • I will become a father
  • I am becoming a father
  • I have become a father
  • I had become a father

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