Irregular Verbs Examples [List]
There are three parts of regular verbs;
- Root form
- Past simple
- Past participle
To root the verb with both past and past participle, we add ‘ed’ with the root verb. Irregular verbs don’t follow this conjugation rule and take a substitute pattern. In the English language, there are almost two hundred irregular verbs.
Examples of Irregular Verbs
| Base form (V1) | Past simple (V2) | V3 Past participle |
| awake | Awoke | awoken |
| beat | beat | beaten |
| begin | began | begun |
| cut | Cut | cut |
| come | came | come |
| dig | dug | dug |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| eat | ate | eaten |
| fall | fell | fallen |
| fly | flew | flown |
| get | got | gotten |
| give | gave | given |
| hit | hit | hit |
| hide | hid | hidden |
| know | knew | known |
| learn | Learned | Learned |
| lend | lent | lent |
| mean | meant | meant |
| pay | paid | paid |
| put | put | put |
| ride | rode | ridden |
| ring | rang | rang |
| say | said | said |
| sell | sold | sold |
| take | took | taken |
| tear | tore | torn |
| understand | understood | understood |
| wake | woke | woken |
| wear | wore | worn |
| write | wrote | written |
| abide | abode | abode |
| arise | arose | arisen |
| be | was/were | been |
| bear | bore | born |
| bend | bent | bent |
| can | could | could |
| choose | chose | chosen |
| deal | dealt | dealt |
| drink | drank | drunk |
| fight | fought | fought |
| forget | forgot | forgotten |
| go | went | gone |
| hurt | hurt | hurt |
| hear | heard | heard |
| keep | kept | kept |
| kneel | Knelt/kneeled | Knelt/kneeled |
| lay | laid | laid |
| leave | left | left |
| meet | met | met |
| make | made | made |
| plead | pled / pleaded | pled / pleaded |
| preset | preset | preset |
| relay | relaid | relaid |
| run | ran | run |
| see | saw | seen |
| see | sought | sought |
| think | thought | thought |
| throw | threw | thrown |
| undergo | underwent | undergone |
| weep | wept | wept |
| withdraw | withdrew | withdrawn |
| bind | bound | bound |
| bet | bet | bet |
| bite | bit | bitten |
| blow | blew | blown |
| bring | brought | brought |
| buy | bought | bought |
| build | built | built |
| catch | caught | caught |
| cost | cost | cost |
| creep | crept | crept |
| chide | Chid / chode | Chid / chidden |
| cling | clung | clung |
| clothe | clothed | clothed |
| do | did | done |
| dream | dreamt/dreamed | dreamt/dreamed |
| drive | drove | driven |
| dwell | dwelt | dwelt |
| dive | dived | dived |
| feed | fed | fed |
| feel | felt | felt |
| find | found | found |
| fling | flang | flung |
| freeze | froze | frozen |
| flee | flew | flown |
| forbid | forbade | forbidden |
| grow | grew | grown |
| grind | ground | ground |
| Hang (a picture) | hung | hung |
| Hang (to put to death) | hanged | hanged |
| have | had | had |
| hold | held | held |
| knit | knitted | knitted |
| leave | left | left |
| let | let | let |
| lose | lost | lost |
| lie | lay | lain |
| lean | leant / leaned | leant / leaned |
| leap | leapt / leaped | leapt / leaped |
| light | lit / lighted | lit / lighted |
| mow | mowed | mowed |
| own | owned | owned |
| partake | partook | partaken |
| prove | proved | proved/proven |
| read | read | read |
| rise | rose | risen |
| send | sent | sent |
| show | showed | showed |
| shut | shut | shut |
| sing | sang | sung |
| sink | sank | sunk |
| sit | sat | sat |
| sleep | slept | slept |
| stink | stank | stunk |
| stand | stood | stood |
| swim | swam | swam |
| swing | swang | swung |
| swell | swelled | swollen |
| swear | swore | sworn |
| strike | struck | struck/stricken |
| strew | strewed | strewed / strewn |
| strive | strove | strove |
| sweep | swept | swept |
| swing | swung | swung |
| stick | stuck | stuck |
| sting | stung | stung |
| teach | taught | taught |
| tell | told | told |
| thrust | thrust | thrust |
| thrive | throve / thrived | throve / thrived |
| typeset | typeset | typeset |
| win | won | won |
| wet | wet / wetted | wet / wetted |
| wind | wound | wound |
| wring | wrung | wrung |
| welcome | welcomed | welcomed |
| wed | wed | wed |
