Snap Language

This page lists 110 basic irregular verbs in English. Irregular verbs are verbs that do not add -d or -ed to the infinitive (or base form) to create the past, the past participle, or both forms.

Some verbs have both regular and irregular forms (e.g., burn > burned / burnt, show > showed > showed / shown).

B C D E F G H I K L M O P Q R S T U V W

B

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
be	was, were	been
bear	bore	born borne
beat	beat	beat
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bite	bit	bitten
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
burn	burned burnt	burned burnt
buy	bought	bought

C D

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
can	could	(been able to)
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
deal	dealt	dealt
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven

E F G

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	got gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown

H I

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt
input	input inputted	input inputted

K L M

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
keep	kept	kept
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
learn	learned learnt	learned learnt
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
lie (down)	lay	lain
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
may	might	—
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
must	(had to)	(had to)

O P Q R

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
quit	quit	quit
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run

S

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
seek	sought	sought
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
shake	shook	shaken
shall	should	—
shoot	shot	shot
show	showed	shown showed
shut	shut	shut
sing	sang sung	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
smell	smelled smelt	smelled smelt
sow	sowed	sown sowed
speak	spoke	spoken
speed	sped	sped
spell	spelled spelt	spelled spelt
spend	spent	spent
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
swim	swam	swum

T U V W

Infinitive	Past Tense	Past Participle
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wake	woke	woken
wear	wore	worn
will	would	—
win	won	won
wind	wound	wound
write	wrote	written