This is a list of the common irregular verbs in English. For a complete list of English irregular verbs, see a good dictionary.<\/p>\n
arise \/ arose \/ arisen<\/p>\n
awake \/ awoke \/ awoken<\/p>\n
be \/ was, were \/ been<\/p>\n
bet \/ bet, betted \/ bet, betted<\/p>\n
beat \/ beat \/ beaten<\/p>\n
become \/ became \/ become<\/p>\n
begin \/ began \/ begun<\/p>\n
bend \/ bent \/ bent<\/p>\n
bind \/ bound \/ bound<\/p>\n
bite \/ bit \/ bitten<\/p>\n
bleed \/ bled \/ bled<\/p>\n
blow \/ blew \/ blown<\/p>\n
break \/ broke \/ broken<\/p>\n
bring \/ brought \/ brought<\/p>\n
build \/ built \/ built<\/p>\n
burn \/ burnt, burned \/ burnt, burned<\/p>\n
buy \/ bought \/ bought<\/p>\n
catch \/ caught \/ caught<\/p>\n
choose \/ chose \/ chosen<\/p>\n
come \/ came \/ come<\/p>\n
cost \/ cost \/ cost<\/p>\n
cut \/ cut \/ cut<\/p>\n
deal \/ dealt \/ dealt<\/p>\n
dig \/ dug \/ dug<\/p>\n
do \/ did \/ done<\/p>\n
draw \/ drew \/ drawn<\/p>\n
dream \/ dreamt, dreamed \/ dreamt, dreamed<\/p>\n
drink \/ drank \/ drunk<\/p>\n
drive \/ drove \/ driven<\/p>\n
eat \/ ate \/ eaten<\/p>\n
fall \/ fell \/ fallen<\/p>\n
feed \/ fed \/ fed<\/p>\n
feel \/ felt \/ felt<\/p>\n
fight \/ fought \/ fought<\/p>\n
find \/ found \/ found<\/p>\n
fly \/ flew \/ flown<\/p>\n
forget \/ forgot \/ forgotten<\/p>\n
forgive \/ forgave \/ forgiven<\/p>\n
freeze \/ froze \/ frozen<\/p>\n
get \/ got \/ got<\/p>\n
give \/ gave \/ given<\/p>\n
go \/ went \/ gone, been<\/p>\n
grow \/ grew \/ grown<\/p>\n
hang \/ hung \/ hung<\/p>\n
have \/ had \/ had<\/p>\n
hear \/ heard \/ heard<\/p>\n
hide \/ hid \/ hidden<\/p>\n
hit \/ hit \/ hit<\/p>\n
hold \/ held \/ held<\/p>\n
hurt \/ hurt \/ hurt<\/p>\n
keep \/ kept \/ kept<\/p>\n
know \/ knew\/ known<\/p>\n
lay \/ laid \/ laid<\/p>\n
lead \/ led \/ led<\/p>\n
lean \/ leant, leaned \/ leant, leaned<\/p>\n
learn \/ learnt, learned \/ learnt, learned<\/p>\n
leave \/ left \/ left<\/p>\n
lend \/ lent \/ lent<\/p>\n
let \/ let \/ let<\/p>\n
lie \/ lay \/ lain<\/p>\n
light \/ lit, lighted \/ lit, lighted<\/p>\n
lose \/ lost \/ lost<\/p>\n
make \/ made \/ made<\/p>\n
mean \/ meant \/ meant<\/p>\n
meet \/ met \/ met<\/p>\n
pay \/ paid \/ paid<\/p>\n
put \/ put \/ put<\/p>\n
read \/ read \/ read<\/p>\n
ride \/ rode \/ ridden<\/p>\n
ring \/ rang \/ rung<\/p>\n
rise \/ rose \/ risen<\/p>\n
run \/ ran \/ run<\/p>\n
say \/ said \/ said<\/p>\n
see \/ saw \/ seen<\/p>\n
sell \/ sold \/ sold<\/p>\n
send \/ sent \/ sent<\/p>\n
set \/ set \/ set<\/p>\n
shake \/ shook \/ shaken<\/p>\n
shine \/ shone \/ shone<\/p>\n
shoot \/ shot \/ shot<\/p>\n
show \/ showed \/ shown<\/p>\n
shut \/ shut \/ shut<\/p>\n
sing \/ sang \/ sung<\/p>\n
sink \/ sank \/ sunk<\/p>\n
sit \/ sat \/ sat<\/p>\n
sleep \/ slept \/ slept<\/p>\n
smell \/ smelt, smelled \/ smelt, smelled<\/p>\n
speak \/ spoke \/ spoken<\/p>\n
speed \/ sped \/ sped<\/p>\n
spell \/ spelt, spelled \/ spelt, spelled<\/p>\n
spend \/ spent \/ spent<\/p>\n
spill \/ spilt, spilled \/ spilt, spilled<\/p>\n
spin \/ span, spun \/ spun<\/p>\n
spoil \/ spoilt, spoiled \/ spoilt, spoiled<\/p>\n
stand \/ stood \/ stood<\/p>\n
steal \/ stole \/ stolen<\/p>\n
stick \/ stuck\u00a0 \/ stuck<\/p>\n
strike \/ struck \/ struck<\/p>\n
swing \/ swung \/ swung<\/p>\n
swim \/ swam \/ swum<\/p>\n
take \/ took \/ taken<\/p>\n
teach \/ taught \/ taught<\/p>\n
tear \/ tore \/ torn<\/p>\n
tell \/ told \/ told<\/p>\n
think \/ thought \/ thought<\/p>\n
throw \/ threw \/ thrown<\/p>\n
understand \/ understood \/ understood<\/p>\n
wake \/ woke \/ woken<\/p>\n
wear \/ wore \/ worn<\/p>\n
win \/ won \/ won<\/p>\n
wind \/ wound \/ wound<\/p>\n
write \/ wrote \/ written<\/p>\n
Note the following differences between British and American English.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. burn, dream, lean, learn, smell, spell, spill and spoil<\/em> <\/strong>are all regular in American English. In British English, irregular past tenses and participles with \u2013t are more common.<\/p>\n 2. wake<\/strong> can be regular in American English.<\/p>\n 3. quit and wet<\/strong> are regular in British English, but irregular in American English; fit<\/strong> is also usually irregular in American English.<\/p>\n GB: quit, quitted, quitted 4. dive is regular in British English, but can be irregular in American English.<\/p>\n GB: dive, dived, dived 5. In American English, the past participle of get is got or gotten.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a list of the common irregular verbs in English. For a complete list of English irregular verbs, see a good dictionary. Infinitive \/ Simple Past \/ Past participle arise \/ arose \/...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[508,1087,1088,1089],"class_list":["post-71962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-irregular-verbs","tag-irregular-verbs-in-english","tag-list-of-irregular-verbs","tag-regular-and-irregular-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71963,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71962\/revisions\/71963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUS: quit, quit, quit
\nGB: wet, wetted, wetted
\nUS: wet, wet, wet
\nUS: fit, fit, fit<\/p>\n
\nUS: dive, dove, dived<\/p>\n