Essential Irregular English Verbs and Spanish Translations

This list presents common irregular English verbs along with their principal parts (base form, past simple, past participle) and their Spanish meanings.

• Learn: learn, learnt/learned, learnt/learned (aprender)
• Shoot: shoot, shot, shot (disparar)
• Leave: leave, left, left (dejar, irse, salir)
• Show: show, showed, shown (mostrar)
• Lend: lend, lent, lent (prestar)
• Shut: shut, shut, shut (cerrar)
• Lie: lie, lay, lain (permitir, dejar)
• Sing: sing, sang, sung (cantar)
• Lie: lie, lied, lied (mentir)
• Sink: sink, sank, sunk (hundirse)
• Light: light, lit, lit (encender)
• Sit: sit, sat, sat (sentarse)
• Lose: lose, lost, lost (perder)
• Sleep: sleep, slept, slept (dormir)
• Make: make, made, made (hacer, fabricar)
• Smell: smell, smelt/smelled, smelt/smelled (oler)
• Mean: mean, meant, meant (significar, querer decir)
• Speak: speak, spoke, spoken (hablar)
• Meet: meet, met, met (conocer a, quedar con)
• Spell: spell, spelt/spelled, spelt/spelled (deletrear)
• Pay: pay, paid, paid (pagar)
• Spend: spend, spent, spent (gastar)
• Put: put, put, put (poner)
• Stand: stand, stood, stood (estar de pie)
• Read: read, read, read (leer)
• Steal: steal, stole, stolen (robar)
• Ride: ride, rode, ridden (montar)
• Stick: stick, stuck, stuck (pegar)
• Ring: ring, rang, rung (llamar por teléfono)
• Sweep: sweep, swept, swept (barrer)
• Rise: rise, rose, risen (elevarse, alzarse)
• Swim: swim, swam, swum (nadar)
• Run: run, ran, run (correr)
• Take: take, took, taken (coger)
• Say: say, said, said (decir)
• Teach: teach, taught, taught (enseñar)
• See: see, saw, seen (ver)
• Tear: tear, tore, torn (romper)
• Sell: sell, sold, sold (vender)
• Tell: tell, told, told (decir)
• Send: send, sent, sent (enviar)
• Think: think, thought, thought (pensar)
• Set: set, set, set (colocar)
• Throw: throw, threw, thrown (tirar)
• Shake: shake, shook, shaken (agitar)
• Understand: understand, understood, understood (entender)
• Shine: shine, shone, shone (brillar)
• Wake up: wake up, woke up, woken up (despertarse)
• Wear: wear, wore, worn (llevar puesto)
• Win: win, won, won (ganar)
• Write: write, wrote, written (escribir)