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withdraw | withdrew | withdrawn |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 |
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- Finite and non-finite Verbs
- Dynamic Verbs