These 50 irregular verbs you need to know

22/03/2023 Apps & Tools for Language Learners Interviews Travel tips created by Caroline S.

In the English language there are some irregular verbs, which we would like to introduce to you in this article. The regular verbs are used in conjunction with auxiliary verbs and different endings, e.g. cook, cooked, cooking. With irregular verbs, the stem of the Simple Past changes as well as the Past Participle. These irregular verbs are needed to form the past tense correctly. In this article you will find a list of the 50 most common irregular verbs with their conjugation.

Tips for learning irregular verbs

At the beginning, this seems to be quite a lot of vocabulary. Unfortunately, there is no way around learning them by heart. We'll give you 5 tips on how to manage to learn the irregular verbs:

Flashcards: Through apps like Quizlet you can create your own flashcards or search millions of learning sets from existing users. The advantage through such apps are that you can learn from anywhere. No matter if you are on the train or waiting for a friend. After all, you have your smartphone with you most of the time!
Listening: For example, you can record yourself reciting vocabulary using your smartphone. You can then listen to what you say at any time. This way you can easily learn the vocabulary without much effort!
Repeat regularly: You can read through the words once every night before you go to sleep. You can then repeat this in the morning and see how many words you still remember.
Use regularly and intensively: In order not to forget the vocabulary, you should also try to use it regularly. You can, for example, write a story in English or talk to other people in English and use these verbs. This way you will remember them longer.

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Table of irregular verbs

Infinitiv	Simple Past	Past Participle
be	was/were	been
bear	bore	borne/born
beat	beat	beaten
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bet	bet	bet
bite	bit	bitten
bleed	bled	bled
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
buy	bought	bought
cast	cast	cast
catch	caught
choose	chose
come	came
cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
do	did	done
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
get	got	got/gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hit	hit	hit
keep	kept	kept
know	knew	known
let	let	let
make	made	made
read	read	read
ring	rang	rung
see	saw	seen
speak	spoke	spoken
stick	stuck	stuck
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
understand	understood	understood
win	won	won
write	wrote	written