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.
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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
DANIEL WASAIDY
Thursday 10th of August 2023
I'm blissful and really like this sight
Rosmi
Tuesday 29th of November 2022
Nice
cherry cherry
Thursday 10th of November 2022
have had such a terrible time rememberin them at school... and as the older say- with time some things will only get better:)... and some just worse.. - this is how the life goes...
sajed
Tuesday 11th of October 2022
is very good for me and every one
sajed
Tuesday 11th of October 2022
wow nice very good