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
Good resource for everyman/-woman but particularly for teachers of English as a foreign language!
Niva
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Hello.
This is my first time to comment. I have noticed a little mistake regarding the table. Unless I get confused, you wrote bare form instead of writing base form. For the rest you did a wonderful job and it is very useful for our pupils duroing the class and outside school.
This table can be used as a reward to encourage best pupils or tjhose who make some progress in their learning.
Thanks ever so much.
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