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.

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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

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