English Irregular Verbs

English Irregular Verbs

• Irregular verbs are listed alphabetically
• There are four columns: base form, past simple (prétérit), past participle, translation

List of verbs and their forms

• Abide, abode, abode: to respect, conform to
• Arise, arose, arisen: to happen, occur
• Awake, awoke, awoken: to wake up
• Be, was/were, been: to be
• Bear, bore, borne/born: to carry, support, give birth
• Beat, beat, beaten: to strike
• Become, became, become: to become
• Beget, begat/begot, begotten: to father
• Begin, began, begun: to start
• Bend, bent, bent: to curve, flex
• Bet, bet, bet: to wager
• Bid, bid/bade, bid/bidden: to offer
• Bite, bit, bitten: to puncture with teeth
• Bleed, bled, bled: to lose blood
• Blow, blew, blown: to expel air, inflate
• Break, broke, broken: to shatter, separate
• Breed, bred, bred: to raise (animals)
• Bring, brought, brought: to carry
• Broadcast, broadcast, broadcast: to transmit
• Build, built, built: to construct
• Burn, burnt/burned, burnt/burned: to be consumed by fire
• Burst, burst, burst: to explode
• Buy, bought, bought: to purchase
• Can, could, could: to be able to
• Cast, cast, cast: to throw, fling; distribute (roles)
• Catch, caught, caught: to seize
• Chide, chid/chode, chid/chidden: to scold
• Choose, chose, chosen: to select
• Cling, clung, clung: to adhere
• Clothe, clad/clothed, clad/clothed: to dress
• Come, came, come: to approach
• Cost, cost, cost: to have a price
• Creep, crept, crept: to crawl
• Cut, cut, cut: to divide with a sharp object
• Deal, dealt, dealt: to distribute
• Dig, dug, dug: excavate
• Dive, dived, dived/dove: to plunge into water
• Do, did, done: to perform, act
• Draw, drew, drawn: to sketch, pull
• Dream, dreamt/dreamed, dreamt/dreamed: to experience images during sleep
• Drink, drank, drunk: to ingest liquid
• Drive, drove, driven: to operate a vehicle
• Dwell, dwelt, dwelt/dwelled: to reside
• Eat, ate, eaten: to consume food
• Fall, fell, fallen: to descend
• Feed, fed, fed: to nourish
• Feel, felt, felt: to experience sensations
• Fight, fought, fought: to combat
• Find, found, found: to discover
• Flee, fled, fled: to run away
• Fling, flung, flung: to throw forcefully
• Fly, flew, flown: to move through the air
• Forbid, forbade, forbidden: to prohibit
• Forecast, forecast, forecast: to predict
• Foresee, foresaw, foreseen: to anticipate
• Forget, forgot, forgotten/forgot: to not remember
• Forgive, forgave, forgiven: to pardon
• Forsake, forsook, forsaken: to abandon
• Freeze, froze, frozen: to turn to ice
• Get, got, gotten/got: to obtain
• Give, gave, given: to offer
• Go, went, gone: to move, travel
• Grind, ground, ground: to crush, oppress
• Grow, grew, grown: to get bigger
• Hang, hung, hung: to suspend
• Have, had, had: to possess
• Hear, heard, heard: to perceive sound
• Hide, hid, hidden: to conceal
• Hit, hit, hit: to strike
• Hold, held, held: to grasp
• Hurt, hurt, hurt: to cause pain
• Keep, kept, kept: to retain
• Kneel, knelt/knelled, knelt/kneeled: to position the knees on the ground
• Know, knew, known: to have knowledge of
• Lay, laid, laid: to place horizontally
• Lead, led, led: to guide
• Lean, leant/leaned, leant/leaned: to incline
• Leap, leapt/leaped, leapt/leaped: to jump
• Learn, learnt, learnt: to acquire knowledge
• Leave, left, left: to depart from
• Lend, lent, lent: to give something temporarily
• Let, let, let: to allow
• Lie, lay, lain: to recline
• Light, lit/lighted, lit/lighted: to illuminate
• Lose, lost, lost: to misplace
• Make, made, made: to create
• Mean, meant, meant: to signify
• Meet, met, met: to encounter
• Mow, mowed, mowed/mown: to cut grass
• Offset, offset, offset: to counteract
• Overcome, overcame, overcome: to defeat
• Partake, partook, partaken: to participate
• Pay, paid, paid: to give money
• Plead, pled/pleaded, pled/pleaded: to appeal, beg
• Preset, preset, preset: to set in advance
• prove, proved, proven/proved: to demonstrate
• Put, put, put: to place
• Quit, quit, quit: to stop
• Read, read, read: to look at and understand written content
• Relay, relayed, relayed: to pass on information
• Rend, rent, rent: to tear
• Rid, rid, rid: to remove, get rid of
• Ride, rode, ridden: to sit on and control a horse, bicycle, etc.
• Ring, rang, rung: to make a sound with a bell
• Rise, rose, risen: to get up
• Run, ran, run: to move quickly on foot
• Saw, saw, sawed/sawn/sawed: to cut with a saw
• Say, said, said: to speak
• See, saw, seen: to perceive with the eyes
• Seek, sought, sought: to look for
• Sell, sold, sold: to exchange for money
• Send, sent, sent: to dispatch
• Set, set, set: to place, arrange
• Shake, shook, shaken: to move rapidly back and forth
• Shed, shed, shed: to lose, discard
• Shine, shone, shone: to emit light
• Shoe, shod, shod: to fit with shoes
• Shoot, shot, shot: to fire a projectile
• Show, showed, shown: to display
• Shut, shut, shut: to close
• Sing, sang, sung: to produce musical sounds with the voice
• Sink, sank/sunk, sunk/sunken: to submerge
• Sit, sat, sat: to rest the body on a seat
• Slay, slew, slain: to kill
• Sleep, slept, slept: to rest in a state of unconsciousness
• Slide, slid, slid: to move smoothly along a surface
• Slink, slunk/slinked, slunk/slinked: to move stealthily
• Slit, slit, slit: to make a long, narrow cut
• Smell, smelt, smelt: to detect an odor
• Sow, sowed, sown/sowed: to scatter seeds
• Speak, spoke, spoken: to talk
• Speed, sped, sped: to move quickly
• Spell, spelt, spelt: to form words with letters
• Spend, spent, spent: to expend resources
• Spill, spilt/spilled, spilt/spilled: to cause liquid to flow unintentionally
• Spin, spun, spun: to rotate quickly
• Spit, spat/spit, spat/spit: to eject saliva
• Split, split, split: to divide
• Spoil, spoilt, spoilt: to ruin
• Spread, spread, spread: to distribute over an area
• Spring, sprang, sprung: to jump up, originate
• Stand, stood, stood: to be upright
• Steal, stole, stolen: to take without permission
• Stick, stuck, stuck: to adhere
• Sting, stung, stung: to Pierce with a sharp point
• Stink, stank, stunk: to emit a bad smell
• Strew, strewed, strewn/strewed: to scatter
• Strike, struck, stricken/struck: to hit
• Strive, strove, striven: to make an effort
• Swear, swore, sworn: to make a solemn promise
• Sweat, sweat/sweated, sweat/sweated: to perspire
• Sweep, swept, swept: to clean with a broom
• Swell, swelled, swollen: to increase in size
• Swim, swam, swum: to move through water
• Swing, swung, swung: to move back and forth
• Take, took, taken: to seize
• Teach, taught, taught: to give instruction
• Tear, tore, torn: to rip
• Tell, told, told: to narrate
• Think, thought, thought: to use the mind
• Thrive, throve/thrived, thriven/thrived: to prosper
• Throw, threw, thrown: to propel through the air
• Thrust, thrust, thrust: to push forcefully
• Tread, trod, trodden: to step on
• Typeset, typeset, typeset: to arrange type for printing
• Undergo, underwent, undergone: to experience
• Understand, understood, understood: to comprehend
• Wake, woke, woken: to awaken
• Wear, wore, worn: to have something on the body
• Weep, wept, wept: to cry
• Wet, wet/wetted, wet/wetted: to moisten
• Win, won, won: to achieve victory
• Wind, wound, wound: to turn, wrap
• Withdraw, withdrew, withdrawn: to retract
• Wring, wrung, wrung: to twist
• Write, wrote, written: to form words with letters