Understanding Irregular Verbs in English

Common Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs in English do not follow the typical pattern of adding '-ed' for the past tense and past participle. Here is a list of some common irregular verbs:

• Be: was/were (past), been (past participle)
• Become: became, become
• Begin: began, begun
• Blow: blew, blown
• Break: broke, broken
• Bring: brought, brought
• Broadcast: broadcast, broadcast
• Build: built, built
• Buy: bought, bought
• Catch: caught, caught
• Choose: chose, chosen
• Come: came, come
• Cost: cost, cost
• Do: did, done
• Draw: drew, drawn
• Drink: drank, drunk
• Drive: drove, driven
• Eat: ate, eaten
• Fall: fell, fallen
• Feed: fed, fed
• Feel: felt, felt
• Fight: fought, fought
• Find: found, found
• Fly: flew, flown
• Forget: forgot, forgotten
• Freeze: froze, frozen
• Get: got, got (or gotten in American English)
• 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
• Lay: laid, laid
• Leave: left, left
• Lend: lent, lent
• Let: let, let
• Light: lit, lit
• Lose: lost, lost
• Make: made, made
• Mean: meant, meant
• Meet: met, met
• Pay: paid, paid
• Put: put, put
• Read: read, read
• Rebuild: rebuilt, rebuilt
• Rewrite: rewrote, rewritten
• Ride: rode, ridden
• Ring: rang, rung
• Run: ran, run
• Say: said, said
• See: saw, seen
• Sell: sold, sold
• Send: sent, sent
• Shake: shook, shaken
• Shine: shone, shone
• Shoot: shot, shot
• Show: showed, shown
• Sing: sang, sung
• Sink: sank, sunk
• 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