Irregular Verbs: List of 90+ Common Irregular Verbs in English

Irregular Verbs! Following is a big list of irregular verbs in English from A to Z with ESL pictures to help you expand your vocabulary.

What are Irregular Verbs?

In English, most of verbs are turned into the past tense by adding ‘-ed’ to the end of a base form of the verb, they are called regular verbs.

Examples:

• Play – played – played
• Work – worked – worked
• Talk – talked – talked

In contrast, some of English verbs don’t follow this rule when changing into the past tense. There’s also no rule for them. Those verbs are called irregular verbs.

Examples:

• Go -went – gone
• Do – did – done
• See – saw – seen

Irregular Verbs List

Irregular Verbs (A-F)

Bare form – Past simple – Participle

• awake – awoke –  awoken
• be – was, were – been
• beat – beat – beaten
• become – became – become
• begin – began – begun
• bend – bent – bent
• bet – bet – bet
• bid – bid – bid
• bite – bit – bitten
• blow – blew – blown
• break – broke – broken
• bring – brought – brought
• broadcast – broadcast – broadcast
• build – built – built
• burn – burned or burnt – burned or burnt
• buy – bought – bought
• catch – caught – caught
• choose – chose – chosen
• come – came – come
• cost – cost – cost
• cut – cut – cut
• dig – dug – dug
• do – did – done
• draw – drew – drawn
• dream – dreamed or dreamt – dreamed or dreamt
• drive – drove – driven
• drink – drank – drunk
• eat – ate – eaten
• fall – fell – fallen
• feel – felt – felt
• fight – fought – fought
• find – found – found
• fly -flew -flown
• forget -forgot -forgotten
• forgive -forgave -forgiven
• freeze -froze -frozen

Irregular Verbs (G-P)

• get -got -got (sometimes gotten)
• 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
• lead -led -led
• learn -learned or learnt -learned or 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

Irregular Verbs (R-W)

• read -read -read
• ride -rode -ridden
• ring -rang -rung
• rise -rose -risen
• run -ran -run
• say -said -said
• see- saw -seen
• sell -sold -sold
• send -sent- sent
• show -showed -showed or shown
• shut -shut -shut
• sing -sang -sung
• sink -sank -sunk
• sit -sat -sat
• sleep – slept- slept
• speak -spoke -spoken
• spend -spent -spent
• stand -stood -stood
• swim -swam -swum
• take -took -taken
• teach -taught -taught
• tear -tore -torn
• tell -told -told
• think -thought -thought
• throw -threw -thrown
• understand -understood -understood
• wake -woke -woken
• wear -wore -worn
• win -won- won
• write -wrote -written

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