IRREGULAR VERBS RESEARCH

Irregular verbs, as their name suggests, do not follow any rule to form the past,
although in the present they behave like regular verbs. The only way to learn them is
by memorizing or repeating their use with exercises to learn irregular verbs in
English.

Although these verbs in English seem complicated, they are much simpler than
Spanish verbs, and they are essential to make you understand in English. You
cannot spend your whole life speaking only in the present tense to avoid using
irregular verbs in the past.

Basically, irregular verbs in English are the ones that are not formed by adding -ed at
the end to form the past tense. But, in addition, there are some irregular verbs that
do not vary in infinitive, past simple and participles.

It does not matter for your initial learning how many irregular verbs there are in
English, but to begin with, you can learn the ones that are most used on a day-to-day
basis. For example:

Eat (eat) - ate - eaten

Go - went - gone

Be (be or be) - was / were - been

Take - took - taken

Irregular verbs
En orden: presente, pasado y participio)
● To be / was/were / been – ser
● To become / became / become – convertirse en / volverse
● To bite / bit / bitten – morder
● To break / broke / broken – romper
● To buy / bought / bought – comprar
● To choose / chose / chosen – elegir
● To come / came / come – venir
● To cost / cost / cost – costar
● To cut / cut / cut – cortar
● To do / did / done – hacer
● To fall / fell / fallen – caer
 ● To feel/ felt / felt – sentir
● To find / found / found – encontrar
● To forget / forgot / forgotten – olvidar
● To get / got / got or gotten – obtener
● To give / gave / given – dar
● To go / went / gone – ir o irse
● To have / had / had – tener
● To hold / held / held – sujetar
● To know / knew / known – saber
● To learn / learnt / learnt – aprender
● To let / let / let – permitir
● To lose / lost / lost – perder
● To make / made / made – hacer

LISTA DE VERBOS IRREGULARES COMUNES Y SU PAST SIMPLE

Verbo Infinitivo Past simple

Comprar Buy Bought

Tomar Take Took

Atrapar Catch Caught

Beber Drink Drank

Caer Fall Fell

Romper Break Broke

Vender Sell Sold

Gastar Spend Spent

Enseñar Teach Taught

Tirar Throw Threw

 Ganar Win Won

Escribir Write Wrote

Ir Go Went

Perder Lose Lost

Volar Fly Flew

Comer Eat Ate

Irregular verbs in Modern English are typically derived from verbs that followed more regular
patterns at a previous stage in the history of the language. In particular, many such verbs
derived from Germanic strong verbs, which make many of their inflected forms through
vowel gradation, as can be observed in Modern English patterns such as sing–sang–sung.
The regular verbs, on the other hand, with their preterites and past participles ending in -ed,
follow the weak conjugation, which originally involved adding a dental consonant (-t or -d).
Nonetheless, there are also many irregular verbs that follow or partially follow the weak
conjugation
Most verbs have a past tense and past participle with –ed:
worked
played
listened

There are about 200 irregular verbs in English. We can divide these into four types:
 Verbs that have the same basic form, simple past and past participle

Verbs that have the same past simple and past participle

Verbs that have the same base form and past participle

Verbs that have a base form, past simple, and different past participle

A good way to learn irregular verbs is to study them in these groups because they
are similar and easier to remember. Here are the most common irregular verbs in
these groups.

For example :
“Our car cost a lot of money but it’s always breaking down.”
“Pasha hurt himself in a soccer match last weekend.”
“My parents have let me stay out late tonight.”
“They put on their jackets because it was very cold.”

Irregular Verbs List

This is a list of some irregular verbs in English. Of course there are many others, but these are the
more common irregular verbs.

Spanish V1 V2 V3

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle

awake was / were awoken

be been
beat beaten

become become

begin begun

bend bent

bet bet

bid bid

bite bitten

blow blown

break broken

bring brought

broadcast broadcast

build built

burn burned or burnt

buy bought

catch caught

choose chosen
come come

cost cost

cut cut

dig dug

do done

draw drawn

dream dreamed or dreamt

drive driven

drink drunk

eat eaten

fall fallen

feel felt

fight fought

find found

fly flown

forget forgotten
forgive forgiven

freeze frozen

get got (sometimes

gotten)

give given

go gone

grow grown

hang hung

have had

hear heard

hide hidden

hit hit

hold held

hurt hurt

keep kept

know known

lay laid
lead led

learn learned or learnt

leave left

lend lent

let let

lie lain

lose lost

make made

mean meant

meet met

pay paid

put put

read read

ride ridden

ring rung

rise risen
run run

say said

see seen

sell sold

send sent

show showed or shown

shut shut

sing sung

sink sunk

sit sat

sleep slept

speak spoken

spend spent

stand stood

stink stunk

swim swum
take taken

teach taught

tear torn

tell told

think thought

throw thrown

understand understood

wake woken

wear worn

win won

write written