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withdraw	withdrew	withdrawn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

Irregular Verbs Examples [List]

Irregular Verbs Examples [List]

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