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

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

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

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