Comprehensive List of Irregular English Verbs and Conjugations
Comprehensive List of Irregular English Verbs
This reference provides the base form, past tense, and past participle for common irregular English verbs, along with their primary meanings.
- Abide: abode/abided, abode/abided (to live up to)
- Arise: arose, arisen (to get up)
- Awake: awoke, awoken (to wake up)
- Be: was/were, been (to exist)
- Bear: bore, born/borne (to carry)
- Beat: beat, beaten (to strike)
- Become: became, become (to grow into)
- Begin: began, begun (to start)
- Bend: bent, bent (to curve)
- Bereave: bereft/bereaved, bereft/bereaved (to deprive)
- Beseech: besought, besought (to implore)
- Bet: bet, bet (to wager)
- Bid: bid, bid (to offer)
- Bind: bound, bound (to tie)
- Bite: bit, bitten (to gnaw)
- Bleed: bled, bled (to lose blood)
- Blow: blew, blown (to exhale)
- Break: broke, broken (to fracture)
- Breed: bred, bred (to reproduce)
- Bring: brought, brought (to carry)
- Build: built, built (to construct)
- Burn: burnt/burned, burnt/burned (to ignite)
- Burst: burst, burst (to explode)
- Buy: bought, bought (to purchase)
- Cast: cast, cast (to throw)
- Catch: caught, caught (to capture)
- Chide: chid/chided, chidden/chided (to rebuke)
- Choose: chose, chosen (to select)
- Cleave: clove/cleft, cloven/cleft (to split or join)
- Cling: clung, clung (to adhere)
- Clothe: clad/clothed, clad/clothed (to dress)
- Come: came, come (to arrive)
- Cost: cost, cost (to require payment)
- Creep: crept, crept (to crawl)
- Cut: cut, cut (to slice)
- Deal: dealt, dealt (to distribute)
- Dig: dug, dug (to excavate)
- Dive: dove/dived, dived (to plunge)
- Do: did, done (to perform)
- Draw: drew, drawn (to sketch)
- Dream: dreamt/dreamed, dreamt/dreamed (to imagine)
- Drink: drank, drunk (to consume liquid)
- Drive: drove, driven (to operate a vehicle)
- Dwell: dwelt, dwelt (to reside)
- Eat: ate, eaten (to consume food)
- Fall: fell, fallen (to drop)
- Feed: fed, fed (to nourish)
- Feel: felt, felt (to sense)
- Fight: fought, fought (to combat)
- Find: found, found (to discover)
- Flee: fled, fled (to escape)
- Fling: flung, flung (to throw)
- Fly: flew, flown (to soar)
- Forbid: forbade, forbidden (to prohibit)
- Forget: forgot, forgotten (to lose memory)
- 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 donate)
- Go: went, gone (to depart)
- Grind: ground, ground (to crush)
- Grow: grew, grown (to cultivate)
- Hang: hung, hung (to suspend)
- Have: had, had (to possess)
- Hear: heard, heard (to listen)
- Hew: hewed, hewn (to chop)
- Hide: hid, hidden (to conceal)
- Hold: held, held (to grasp)
- Keep: kept, kept (to preserve)
- Kneel: knelt, knelt (to rest on knees)
- Knit: knit, knit (to weave)
- Lade: laded, laden (to load)
- Lay: laid, laid (to place)
- Lead: led, led (to guide)
- Lean: leant/leaned, leant/leaned (to incline)
- Leap: leapt/leaped, leapt/leaped (to jump)
- Learn: learned/learnt, learned/learnt (to acquire knowledge)
- Leave: left, left (to depart)
- Lend: lent, lent (to loan)
- Let: let, let (to allow)
- Lie: lay, lain (to recline)
- Light: lit, lit (to illuminate)
- Lose: lost, lost (to misplace)
- Make: made, made (to create)
- Mean: meant, meant (to signify)
- Meet: met, met (to encounter)
- Melt: melted, molten/melted (to liquefy)
- Mow: mowed, mown (to cut grass)
- Quit: quit, quit (to stop)
- Rend: rent, rent (to tear)
- Rid: rid, rid (to clear)
- Ride: rode, ridden (to travel)
- Ring: rang, rung (to sound)
- Rise: rose, risen (to ascend)
- Saw: sawed, sawn (to cut with a saw)
- Seek: sought, sought (to search)
- Set: set, set (to place)
- Sew: sewed, sewn (to stitch)
- Shake: shook, shaken (to vibrate)
- Shear: sheared, shorn (to clip)
- Shed: shed, shed (to cast off)
- Shine: shone, shone (to glow)
- Shoe: shod, shod (to provide footwear)