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withdrawn |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 |
Read More Tutorials on Verbs
- Action verb
- Auxiliary verbs
- Stative Verbs
- Modal Verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Irregular Verbs
- Confusing Verbs
- Transitive and intransitive Verbs
- Finite and non-finite Verbs
- Dynamic Verbs