Tips to master irregular verbs

Learning irregular verbs can be a tedious task.
To help you master irregular verbs, we have grouped together verbs with similar patterns.
This will help you memorize them.

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1. Verbs with identical Infinitive and Past Participle

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
come came come
become became become
run ran run

2. Verbs with -n in the Past Participle

2.1. Verbs with "o" in the Simple Past and Past Participle

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
break broke broken
choose chose chosen
forget forgot forgoten
freeze froze frozen
get got goten
speak spoke spoken
steal stole stolen
tear tore torn
wake woke woken
wear wore worn

2.2. Verbs with “o” in the Simple Past only

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
drive drove driven
ride rode riden
rise rose risen
write wrote written

2.3. Verbs with -ew in the Simple Past and -own in the Past Participle

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
blow blew blown
fly flew flown
grow grew grown
know knew known
throw threw thrown

2.4. Other verbs with -n in the Past Participle

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
bite bit bitten
hide hid hidden
eat ate eaten
fall fell fallen
forbid forbade forbiden
forgive forgave forgiven
give gave given
see saw seen
shake shook shaken
take took taken

3. Verbs with vowel changes

3.1. Verbs with long "e" changes to short "e"

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
keep kept kept
sleep slept slept
feel felt felt
bleed bled bled
feed felt felt
meet met met
lead led led

3.2. Verbs with "ea" pronounced differently

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
deal dealt dealt
dream dreamt dreamt
mean meant meant
read read read
hear heard heard

3.3. Verbs with long "i" changing to "ou"

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
bind bound bound
find found found
grind ground ground
wind wound wound

3.4. Verbs with -ell changing to -old

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
sell sold sold
tell told told

3.5. Verbs with -ought changing to -aught

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
bring brought brought
buy bought bought
catch caught caught
fight fought fought
seek sought sought
teach tought tought
think thought thought

4. Verbs with 3 different vowels

4.1. Verbs with vowels changes from "i" to "a" to "u"

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
begin began begun
drink drank drunk
ring rang rung
shrink shrank shrunk
sing sang sung
spring sprang sprung
swim swam swum

5. The TOP 5 most irregular verbs

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle
be was / were been
do did done
go went gone
have had had
make made made