Essential English Verbs: Present and Past Forms
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This reference list provides common English verbs categorized by their conjugation type, showing their forms in the Present Tense and the Simple Past Tense.
Regular Verbs
Regular verbs form their past tense by adding -ed.
| Present Tense | Past Tense |
|---|---|
| answer | answered |
| ask | asked |
| arrive | arrived |
| call | called |
| close | closed |
| cook | cooked |
| cry | cried |
| dance | danced |
| enjoy | enjoyed |
| erase | erased |
| happen | happened |
| like | liked |
| listen | listened |
| live | lived |
| look | looked |
| open | opened |
| paint | painted |
| phone | phoned |
| play | played |
| remember | remembered |
| start | started |
| stay | stayed |
| study | studied |
| talk | talked |
| travel | traveled |
| visit | visited |
| walk | walked |
| wash | washed |
| watch | watched |
| work | worked |
Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs do not follow the standard -ed pattern for the past tense.
| Present Tense | Past Tense |
|---|---|
| be (is, are, am) | was, were |
| build | built |
| buy | bought |
| come | came |
| cut | cut |
| do | did |
| drink | drank |
| drive | drove |
| eat | ate |
| fall | fell |
| get | got |
| give | gave |
| go | went |
| have | had |
| know | knew |
| make | made |
| read | read |
| run | ran |
| see | saw |
| sing | sang |
| sit | sat |
| sleep | slept |
| speak | spoke |
| stand | stood |
| swim | swam |
| take | took |
| tell | told |
| think | thought |
| wear | wore |
| write | wrote |