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Irregular Verbs

List of Irregular Verbs in English

Irregular verbs are so called because their past forms (V2 and V3) are not made by adding '-d', '-ed', '- ied' to their ends. Their past forms (V2 & V3) are usually different from each other.

Recall the Forms of Verbs written below.

Irregular Verbs List
Infinitive ‘V1’	Simple Past ‘V2’	Past participle ‘V3’
Alight	alighted/alit	alighted/alit
Abide	abode	abode
Arise	arose	arisen
Awake	awoke	awoken
Be	was/were	been
Bear	bore	born
Beat	beat	beaten
Become	became	become
Befall	befell	befallen
Begin	begot	begot
Bid	bid	bid
Bid	bade	bidden
Behold	beheld	beheld
Bereave	bereaved	bereaved
Bend	bent	bent
Beseech	besought	besought
Bet	bet/betted	bet
Bind	bound	bound
Bite	bit	bitten
Blow	blew	blown
Bleed	bled	bled
Break	broke	broken
Bring	brought	brought
Broadcast	broadcast	broadcast
Breed	bred	bred
Build	built	built
Burn	burnt	burnt
Beget	begot	begotten
Burst	burst	burst
Buy	bought	bought
Bless	blessed/blest	blessed/blest
Bust	bust/busted	bust/busted
Bide	bade/bided	bided
Cast	cast	cast
Catch	caught	caught
Chide	chid	chidden
Come	came	come
Clothe	clad/clothed	clad/clothed
Choose	chose	chosen
Cling	clung	clung
Can	could	could
Cleave	clove	cloven
Cost	cost	cost
Creep	crept	crept
Crow	crew	crowed/crown
Cut	cut	cut
Dare	durst	durst
Deal	dealt	dealt
Dig	dug	dug
Do	did	done
Draw	drew	drawn
Deal	dealt	dealt
Dig	dug	dug
Dream	dreamt	dreamt
Drink	drank	drunk
Dive	dived	dived/dove
Drive	drove	driven
Dwell	dwelt	dwelt
Eat	ate	eaten
Feel	felt	felt
Fight	fought	fought
Fall	fell	fallen
Feed	fed	fed
Find	found	found
Flee	fled	fled
Forecast	forecast	forecast
Fling	flung	flung
Fly	flew	flown
Forbear	forbore	forborn
Foresee	foresaw	foreseen
Forbid	forbade	forbidden
Forget	forgot	forgotten
Forgive	forgave	forgiven
Forsake	forsook	forsake
Freeze	froze	frozen
Gild	gilt	gilt
Get	Gilded/got	Gilded/got
Gnaw	gnawed	gnawed/gnawn
Give	gave	given
Gird	girt	girt
Grip	gripped/gript	gripped/gript
Go	went	gone
Grind	ground	ground
Grow	grew	grown
Hang	hung	hung
Hear	heard	heard
Heave	heaved/hove	heaved/hove
Have	had	had
Hew	hewed	hewn
Hide	hid	hidden
Hit	hit	hit
Hold	held	held
Hurt	hurt	hurt
Keep	kept	kept
Kneel	Knelt/ knelled	Knelt/ kneeled
Knit	knit	knit
Know	knew	known
Lay	laid	laid
Lean	leant	leant
lead	led	led
Leap	leapt	leapt
Learn	learnt	learnt
Leave	left	left
Lend	lent	lent
Let	let	let
Lie	lay	lain
Lie	lied	lied
Light	lit	lit
Lose	lost	lost
Make	made	made
Mean	meant	meant
Meet	met	met
May	might	may
Melt	melted	molten/melted
Mow	mowed	Mown/mowed
Overcome	overcame	overcome
Offset	offset	offset
Pay	paid	paid
Partake	Partook	partaken
Pen	Pent/penned	Pent/penned
Put	Put	Put
Plead	pled/pleaded	pled/pleaded
Preset	preset	preset
Prove	proved	proven/proved
Quit	quit/quitted	quit/quitted
Read	read/red	read
Relay	relaid	relaid
Rend	rent	rent
Rid	rid	rid
Ride	rode	ridden
Rise	rose	risen
Ring	rang	rung
Run	ran	run
Saw	sawed	sawn
Say	said	said
See	saw	seen
Seek	sought	sought
Sell	sold	sold
Send	sent	sent
Set	set	set
Sew	sewed	sewn
Shake	shook	shaken
Shear	shore	shorn
Shed	shed	shed
Shine	shone	shone
Shoe	shod	shod
Shoot	shot	shot
Show	showed	shown
Shrink	shrank	shrunk
Shut	shut	shut
Sing	sang	sung
Sink	sank	sunk
Sit	sat	sat
Slay	slew	slain
Sleep	slept	slept
Slide	slid	slid
Sling	slang	slung
Slink	slunk	slunk
Slit	slit	slit
Smell	smelt	smelt
Smite	smote	smitten
Sow	sowed	sown
Speak	spoke	spoken
Speed	sped	sped
Spell	spelt	spelt
Spend	spent	spent
Spill	spilt	spilt
Spin	spun	spun
Spit	spat	spat
Spilt	spilt	spilt
Spread	spread	spread
Spring	sprang	sprung
Stand	stood	stood
Steal	stole	stolen
Stick	stuck	stuck
Sting	stung	stung
Stink	stank	stunk
Strew	strewed	strewn
Stride	strode	strodden
Strike	struck	struck
String	strung	strung
Strive	strove	striven
Swear	swore	sworn
Sweep	swept	swept
Swell	swelled	swelled
Swim	swam	swum
Sweat	sweat/sweated	sweat/sweated
Swing	swang	swung
Take	took	taken
Teach	taught	taught
Telecast	telecast/telecasted	telecast/telecasted
Tear	tore	torn
Tell	told	told
Think	thought	thought
Thrive	throve	thriven
Throw	threw	thrown
Thrust	thrust	thrust
Typeset	typeset	typeset
Tread	trod	trodden
Undertake	undertook	undertaken
Understand	understood	understood
Wake	Woke/waked	woken
Weave	wove	woven
Wed	wed/wedded	wed/wedded
Weep	wept	wept
Wear	wore	worn
Wet	Wet/wetted	wet
Win	won	won
Withdraw	withdrew	withdrawn
Wind	wound	wound
Wring	wrange	wrung
Write	wrote	written

Note :

Apart from the above verbs, all the verbs are regular, That is, -d., - ed., - ied will be used to make their V2 / V3.

example :

• play-played-played
• work-worked-worked
• arrest-arrested-arrested.

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