Essential English Irregular Verb Conjugation List
Common English Irregular Verbs
Below is a corrected list of common English irregular verbs, organized by their base, past simple, and past participle forms:
- Be: was/were - been
- Beat: beat - beaten
- Become: became - become
- Begin: began - begun
- Bite: bit - bitten
- Blow: blew - blown
- Break: broke - broken
- Bring: brought - brought
- Build: built - built
- Buy: bought - bought
- Can: could
- Catch: caught - caught
- Choose: chose - chosen
- Cost: cost - cost
- Cut: cut - cut
- Do: did - done
- Draw: drew - drawn
- Dream: dreamt - dreamt
- Drink: drank - drunk
- Drive: drove - driven
- Eat: ate - eaten
- Fall: fell - fallen
- Feel: felt - felt
- Fight: fought - fought
- Find: found - found
- Fly: flew - flown
- Forget: forgot - forgotten
- Get: got - got
- Give: gave - given
- Go: went - gone
- Grow: grew - grown
- Hang: hung - hung
- Have: had - had
- Hear: heard - heard
- Hide: hid - hidden
- Hit: hit - hit
- Hold: held - held
- Hurt: hurt - hurt
- Keep: kept - kept
- Know: knew - known
- Learn: learnt - learnt
- Leave: left - left
- Lend: lent - lent
- Let: let - let
- Lie: lay - lain
- Lose: lost - lost
- Make: made - made
- Mean: meant - meant
- Meet: met - met
- Pay: paid - paid
- Put: put - put
- Read: read - read
- Ride: rode - ridden
- Ring: rang - rung
- Run: ran - run
- Say: said - said
- See: saw - seen
- Sell: sold - sold
- Send: sent - sent
- Set: set - set
- Shine: shone - shone
- Show: showed - shown
- Shut: shut - shut
- Sing: sang - sung
- Sit: sat - sat
- Sleep: slept - slept
- Speak: spoke - spoken
- Spend: spent - spent
- Stand: stood - stood
- Steal: stole - stolen
- Swim: swam - swum
- Take: took - taken
- Teach: taught - taught
- Tell: told - told
- Think: thought - thought
- Throw: threw - thrown
- Understand: understood - understood
- Wake: woke - woken
- Wear: wore - worn
- Win: won - won
- Write: wrote - written
Usage Notes
Examples of usage: I see him now. I have just seen him. This happened 20 years ago. It has been this way since 1989.