Most Common English Verbs

No. Verb Simple Past Past Participle MEANING

1. to add added added agregar

2. to allow allowed allowed permitir

3. to answer answered answered responder

4. to appear appeared appeared aparecer

5. to ask asked asked preguntar/pedir

6. to be were been ser / estar

7. to become became become llegar a ser / convertirse

8. to begin began begun empezar / comenzar

9. to believe believed believed creer

10. to break broke broken romper / quebrar

11. to bring brought brought traer

12. to build built built construer

13. to buy bought bought comprar

14. to call called called llamar

15. to change changed changed cambiar

16. to choose chose chosen elegir

17. to clean cleaned cleaned limpiar

18. to come came come venir

19. to consider considered considered considerer

20. to continue continued continued continuar

21. to cook cooked cooked cocinar

22. to create created created crear

23. to cry cried cried llorar

24. to cut cut cut cortar

25. to dance danced danced bailar

26. to decide decided decided decider

27. to die died died morir

28. to do did done hacer

29. to draw drew drawn dibujar

30. to dream dreamt dreamt sonar

31. to drink drank drunk beber

32. to drive drove driven conducir

33. to eat ate eaten comer

34. to enjoy enjoyed enjoyed disfrutar

35. to fall fell fallen caer

36. to feel felt felt sentir

37. to find found found encontrar

38. to fight fought fought pelear

39. to fly flew flown volar

40. to follow followed followed seguir

41. to forget forgot forgotten olvidar

42. to get got got obtener

43. to give gave given dar

44. to go went gone ir

45. to grow grew grown crecer / cultivar

46. to happen happened happened suceder

47. to have had had tener

48. to hate hated hated odiar

49. to hear heard heard oír

50. to help helped helped ayudar

51. to hide hid hidden esconder(se)

52. to hold held held contener / abrazar

53. to include included included incluir

54. to invite invited invited inviter

55. to keep kept kept mantener

56. to kill killed killed matar

57. to kiss kissed kissed besar

58. to know knew known saber / conocer

59. to lead led led guiar

60. to learn learnt learnt aprender

61. to leave left left dejar / abandoner

62. to let let let dejar / permitir

63. to like liked liked gustar

64. to listen listened listened escuchar

65. to live lived lived vivir

66. to look looked looked mirar

67. to lose lost lost perder

68. to love loved loved amar

69. to make made made hacer

70. to marry married married casar(se)

71. to mean meant meant significar

72. to meet met met encontrarse con / conocer

73. to move moved moved mover(se)

74. to need needed needed necesitar

75. to offer offered offered ofrecer

76. to open opened opened abrir

77. to paint painted painted pintar

78. to pass passed passed pasar

79. to pay paid paid pagar

80. to play played played jugar / tocar (un instrumento)

81. to prefer preferred preferred preferir

82. to pull pulled pulled tirar

83. to put put put poner

84. to question questioned questioned preguntar

85. to rain rained rained llover

86. to raise raised raised levantar / incrementar

87. to reach reached reached alcanzar

88. to read read read leer

89. to relax relaxed relaxed relajar

90. to remain remained remained permanecer

91. to remember remembered remembered recordar

92. to require required required solicitor

93. to run ran run corer

94. to save saved saved salvar / ahorrar

95. to say said said decir

96. to see saw seen ver

97. to sell sold sold vender

98. to send sent sent enviar

99. to serve served served server

100. to set set set establecer

101. to show showed shown mostrar

102. to sing sang sung cantar

103. to sit sat sat sentar(se)

104. to sleep slept slept dormir

105. to speak spoke spoken habalr

106. to spend spent spent gastar / pasar (tiempo)

107. to stand stood stood levantarse/ soportar

108. to start started started comenzar

109. to stay stayed stayed quedarse

110. to stop stopped stopped parar

111. to study studied studied estudiar

112. to suggest suggested suggested sugerir

113. to take took taken tomar / llevar

114. to talk talked talked conversar

115. to teach taught taught enseñar

116. to tell told told decir / contar

117. to think thought thought pensar

118. to touch touched touched tocar

119. to travel travelled travelled viajar

120. to try tried tried intentar / probar

121. to turn turned turned convertir/ girar

122. to understood understood entender

understand
123. to use used used usar

124. to wait waited waited esperar

125. to walk walked walked caminar

126. to want wanted wanted querer

127. to wash washed washed lavar

128. to watch watched watched mirar

129. to win won won ganar

130. to work worked worked trabajar

131. to write wrote written escribir