Table of English Irregular Verbs

All students of English need to memorise a table of irregular verbs.
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• Only one verb (go) has two past participles with different meanings: I have been, I have gone.
• Some verbs (burn, dream, learn, etc) have alternative forms, and you can choose the one you like.
• Modal verbs (can, must, could, etc) have different rules.

 

Base verb	Past simple	Past Participle (+ have or has for the perfect tense)
be I am, you are, he is we/you/they are	I was, you were, he was we/you/they were	been
beat	beat	beaten
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
bite	bit	bitten
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
burn	burned/burnt	burned/burnt
burst	burst	burst
buy	bought	bought
can	could/was able to	been able to
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cut	cut	cut
dig	dug	dug
dive	dived	dived [sometimes dove in USA]
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
dream	dreamed/dreamt	dreamed/dreamt
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
forgive	forgave	forgotten
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	got [sometimes gotten in USA]
give	gave	given
go	went	(1) been (2) gone
grow	grew	have grown
hang	hanged/hung	hanged/hung
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt
keep	kept	kept
kneel	knelt	knelt
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
learn	learned/learnt	learned/learnt
leave	left	left
let	let	let
lend	lent	lent
lie	lay	laid/lain
light	lit/lighted	lit/lighted
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
must	had to	had to
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read [pron: riːd]	read [pron: red]	read [pron: red]
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
say	said [pron: sed]	said [pron: sed]
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
shake	shook	shaken
shine	shone	shone
shoot	shot	shot
show	showed	shown
shut	shut	shut
sing	sang	sung
sink	sank	sunk
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
slide	slid	slid
smell	smelt/smelled	smelt/smelled
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
spill	spilled/spilt	spilled/spilt
spoil	spoiled/spoilt	spoiled/spoilt
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
stick	stuck	stuck
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tear	tore	torn
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wake up	woke up	woken up
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written