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8 52 Verbs
Most common past simple verbs.

[00:00:02] In this lecture I'm going to give you the pronunciation of 52 of the most important
verbs in the past simple. Many are irregular, so they don't follow the typical rules. So this will
help you with the pronunciation as well as how to form them.

[00:00:16] Additionally. I'm including the past participle, since when the verb is irregular, this is
often irregular, too.

[00:00:22] Don't try to memorize all of these at once, only the most important verbs according
to the English you use or are trying to learn. If you need to memorize these words or want to do
it more quickly, make flashcards to learn them through repetition and practice. With learning
new vocabulary repetition and consistent study is the most important.

[00:00:41] So make sure to review the more difficult words at least once a day or a few times
each week, and use them in your own examples and sentences, in writing and saying them out
loud.

[00:00:51] In previous lectures in this section. I spend a lot more time with the verbs to be to
have and the past tense -ed endings. So if you want to focus on those things a little bit more, go
a little bit earlier in this section of the course. As well, there is a similar lecture to this one in the
present tense section, so that you can learn how to pronounce these words in the present
simple.

[00:01:14] To ask. Asked past participle asked.

[00:01:19] To be has to conjugations in the past.

[00:01:22] For I he she and it we say was.

[00:01:25] For we you they we say were.

[00:01:29] The past participle is been as pronounced in the US , been. And been if you are in the
UK, been.

[00:01:37] To become became. Past participle become.

[00:01:42] To begin began. Past participle begun.

[00:01:47] To call called past participle called.

[00:01:51] Can could. No past participle.

[00:01:55] To come came past participle come.

[00:02:00] Could could is a modal verb, so it doesn't change.

[00:02:04] To do did past participle done.

[00:02:08] To drink. Drink past participle drunk.

[00:02:13] To feel felt past participle felt.

[00:02:18] To find found past participle found.

[00:02:22] To get got past participle got/gotten.

[00:02:27] To give gave past participle given.

[00:02:32] To go went past participle went.

[00:02:36] To have had. Past participle had.

[00:02:40] To hear heard past participial heard.

[00:02:45] To help helped past participle. Helped.

[00:02:49] To keep kept past participle kept.

[00:02:55] To know knew past participle known.

[00:02:59] To leave left past participle left.

[00:03:04] To let. Let past participle let.

[00:03:09] To like liked past participle liked.

[00:03:13] To live lived past participle lived.

[00:03:18] To look looked past participle looked.

[00:03:22] To make made past participle made.

[00:03:27] May. May is a modal verb, so it does not change.

[00:03:32] To mean meant past participle meant.

[00:03:36] Might might as a modal verb, so it does not change.

[00:03:39] To move moved past participle moved. To move moved past participle moved.

[00:03:48] To need needed past participle needed.

[00:03:53] To play played past participle played.

[00:03:57] To put. put past participle put.

[00:04:02] To read read past participle read. The spelling of to read stays the same in the past
and past participle, but in the past simple and the participle it's pronounced as the color red.

[00:04:17] I read before.

[00:04:18] But in the present and for the infinitive. It's pronounced read. Read.

[00:04:25] To run. Ran past participle run.

[00:04:30] To say said past participle said. Like in the present, this is a very often mispronounced
word in the past. The infinitive is say, the same vowel as hey. But the past simple and participle
is said. With a vowel like the man's name Ed. Said.

[00:04:52] To see saw. Past participle seen.

[00:04:56] Two seemed seemed past participle seemed.

[00:05:01] Should should is a modal verb, so does not change.

[00:05:05] To show showed past participle shown.

[00:05:09] To start started past participle started.

[00:05:14] To take took past participle taken.

[00:05:18] To talk talked. Past participle talked.

[00:05:23] To tell told past participle told.

[00:05:28] To think thought past participle thought.

[00:05:32] To try tried past participle tried.

[00:05:37] To turn turned past participle turned.

[00:05:42] To use used past participle used.

[00:05:46] To want. Wanted past participle wanted.

[00:05:51] Will will is a modal verb, so we do not change it.

[00:05:54] To work worked past participle worked.

[00:05:58] Would. And would is a modal verb, so we do not change it.