Regular and Irregular Verbs (List of Irregular verbs)

REGULAR & IRREGULAR VERBS

VERBS

What are verbs?

Verbs are Known as action words. They tell us what someone or something is doing.

Examples:

He is running. (Here run is a verb)

She sings beautifully. (Here sing is a verb)

Regular verbs: Most verbs in English are regular verbs. These verbs follow a simple rule to change their form. To make past and past participles, we just add "-ed" or "-d" to the verb

Examples

Play becomes played.
Walk becomes walked.
Listen becomes listened.

Irregular verbs: On the other hand, Irregular verbs are special as they do not follow the normal patterns for past and past participle. In other words, they don’t add "-ed" or "-d" to form past and past participle. Instead, they change in different ways, and there’s no single rule that applies to all of them.

Examples

Present: go (I go to school.)
Past: went (Yesterday, I went to school.)
Past Participle: gone (He has gone to school.)

Here, "go" changes to "went" in the past, and to "gone" when used in the perfect tense.

Eat:

Present: eat (I eat an apple.)
Past: ate (I ate an apple yesterday.)
Past Participle: eaten (I have eaten an apple today.)

Here, "eat" changes to "ate" in the past, and to "eaten" when used in the perfect tense.

Sing:

Present: sing (She sings well.)
Past: sang (She sang yesterday.)
Past Participle: sung (She has sung at the concert.)

Here"sing" becomes "sang" in the past and "sung" when used with "have" or "has."

Why Are Irregular Verbs Important?

Irregular verbs are important because they are very common in English. Knowing how to use them correctly will help one speak and write more accurately.

Conclusion:

In a nutshell, irregular verbs don’t follow the normal rules for forming the past and past participle. They change in their own unique ways. So there is a need to learn them separately. But with practice, they’ll become easier to use.

LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS

Base form	Past	Past Participle
arise	arose	arisen
awake	awoke	awoken
be	was/were	been
bear	bore	borne/born
beat	beat	beaten
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
bet	bet	bet
bind	bound	bound
bite	bit	bitten
bleed	bled	bled
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
breed	bred	bred
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
burn	burnt/burned	burnt/burned
burst	burst	burst
buy	bought	bought
cast	cast	cast
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
cling	clung	clung
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
creep	crept	crept
cut	cut	cut
deal	dealt	dealt
dig	dug	dug
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
dream	dreamt/dreamed	dreamt/dreamed
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fit	fit	fit
flee	fled	fled
fling	flung	flung
fly	flew	flown
forbid	forbade	forbidden
forget	forgot	forgotten
forgive	forgave	forgiven
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	got / gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grind	ground	ground
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
kneel	knelt/kneeled	knelt/kneeled
knit	knit	knit
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
lean	leant/leaned	leant/leaned
leap	leapt/leaped	leapt/leaped
learn	learnt/learned	learnt/learned
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
lie	lay	lain
light	lit / lighted	lit / lighted
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
mow	mowed	mown / mowed
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
saw	sawed	sawn / sawed
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
seek	sought	sought
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
shake	shook	shaken
shed	shed	shed
shine	shone	shone
shoot	shot	shot
show	showed	shown / showed
shrink	shrank	shrunk
shut	shut	shut
sing	sang	sung
sink	sank	sunk
sit	sat	sat
slay	slew	slain
sleep	slept	slept
slide	slid	slid
smell	smelt / smelled	smelt / smelled
sow	sowed	sown / sowed
speak	spoke	spoken
speed	sped / speeded	sped / speeded
spell	spelt / spelled	spelt / spelled
spend	spent	spent
spill	spilt / spilled	spilt / spilled
spin	spun	spun
split	split	split
spread	spread	spread
spring	sprang	sprung
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
stick	stuck	stuck
sting	stung	stung
stink	stank / stunk	stunk
strike	struck	struck
swear	swore	sworn
sweep	swept	swept
swim	swam	swum
swing	swung	swung
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tear	tore	torn
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
thrust	thrust	thrust
tread	trod	trodden / trod
understand	understood	understood
wake	woke / waked	woken / waked
wear	wore	worn
weep	wept	wept
win	won	won
wind	wound	wound
withdraw	withdrew	withdrawn
wring	wrung	wrung
write	wrote	written

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