List of Regular and Irregular Verbs (English Verb Forms)

Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the predictable pattern of regular verbs in their conjugation for different tenses. In English, irregular verbs have unique forms for different tenses and can be difficult to predict.

There is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and past-participle forms. There are over 250 irregular verbs in English. Although they do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms.

For example, the irregular verb “eat” becomes “ate” in the past tense and “eaten” in the past participle. Another example is the irregular verb “go,” which becomes “went” in the past tense and “gone” in the past participle.

It’s important to note that there are many irregular verbs in English and they often require memorization. However, understanding and correctly using irregular verbs is important for effective communication and writing in English.

Examples of irregular verbs include:

• be
• have
• do
• say
• see
• go
• take
• give
• make
• find
• eat
• run

Irregular Verbs List

Here is a list of common irregular verbs in English, with their three forms (base form, past tense, past participle):

• be (be, was/were, been)
• have (have, had, had)
• do (do, did, done)
• say (say, said, said)
• see (see, saw, seen)
• go (go, went, gone)
• take (take, took, taken)
• give (give, gave, given)
• make (make, made, made)
• find (find, found, found)
• eat (eat, ate, eaten)
• run (run, ran, run)
• come (come, came, come)
• know (know, knew, known)
• get (get, got, got/gotten)
• put (put, put, put)
• let (let, let, let)
• feel (feel, felt, felt)
• become (become, became, become)
• begin (begin, began, begun)
• bring (bring, brought, brought)
• buy (buy, bought, bought)
• catch (catch, caught, caught)
• choose (choose, chose, chosen)
• drink (drink, drank, drunk)
• drive (drive, drove, driven)
• fall (fall, fell, fallen)
• fly (fly, flew, flown)
• forget (forget, forgot, forgotten)
• give (give, gave, given)
• grow (grow, grew, grown)
• hear (hear, heard, heard)
• keep (keep, kept, kept)
• lead (lead, led, led)
• leave (leave, left, left)
• lend (lend, lent, lent)
• lose (lose, lost, lost)
• pay (pay, paid, paid)
• read (read, read, read)
• ride (ride, rode, ridden)
• ring (ring, rang, rung)
• rise (rise, rose, risen)
• see (see, saw, seen)
• sing (sing, sang, sung)
• sit (sit, sat, sat)
• sleep (sleep, slept, slept)
• speak (speak, spoke, spoken)
• spend (spend, spent, spent)
• stand (stand, stood, stood)
• swim (swim, swam, swum)
• teach (teach, taught, taught)
• tear (tear, tore, torn)
• tell (tell, told, told)
• think (think, thought, thought)
• understand (understand, understood, understood)
• win (win, won, won)
• write (write, wrote, written)