Irregular verbs in English

Irregular verbs in English

According to grammar rules, irregular verbs in English are words that they don’t follow the usual rules for their verb forms.

These do not adopt the spelling patterns that are generally applied to words of that type and that are part of the fácil past or past participle.

They are also called “strong verb” or “strong verbs” and are characterized by lacking conventional endings, for example: -d, -ed and ied.

Interestingly, these are the most frequently used.

There is no doubt that English has hundreds of thousands of verbs that speakers must memorize to communicate with others.

However, what are called “irregular” are also part of the lexicon and are nothing more than exceptions to existing spelling rules.

They are believed to come from a time when Old English was spoken.

Time in which the grammar titled the verbs under two categories: strong and weak.

But fewer are known to exist today than were known then.

Also learn: Regular verbs in English and Spanish

⭐ Most used irregular verbs in English

List with more than 30 most used irregular verbs in English, in infinity, past, participle and with their meaning in Spanish.

Infinite	Past	Participle	Spanish
go	went	gone	Leave
eat	tie	eaten	Eat
Cut	cut	cut	Cut
drinks	drink	drunk	To drink
forbidden	forbade	forbidden	ban
freezing	frozen	frozen	Freeze
eat	came	eat	come
awake	awoke	awoken	Wake up
Bet	Bet	Bet	Bet
bite	bit	bitten	Bite
deal	dealt	dealt	Treat
fly	flew	flown	Fly
give	gave	gave	Give
buy	bought	bought	buy
bear	bore	terminal	Bear
speak	spoke	spoken	Talk
Rise	rose	risen	Increase
sleep	slept	slept	Sleep
make	made	made	Do
meets	met	met	Meet
lies	lay	lain	Lie
put	put	put	Place
Pay	paid	paid	Pay
lead	LEDs	LEDs	drive, steer
know	Knew	known	Know
hear	heard	heard	Hear
Have	Had	Had	Have to have
flee	fled	fled	Flee
Draw	Drew	drawn	Draw
lies	lay	lain	Lie
Remake	remade	remade	Redo
say	Said	Said	Say
Write	Wrote	written	Write

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⭐ How to use irregular verbs

Precisely because irregular verbs in English are skip the grammar rule If you add a certain ending, they become a pain in the ass when trying to learn this language.

There is no conjugation pattern for these words.

However, to facilitate its learning, it is best to start studying those that are spelled the same in any of their forms, such is the case of “bet, cut, hit, lend, put..” In addition to this, there are two tricks that we espectáculo you below:

• If you want to make your life easier learning English, don’t forget to apply the famous “IAU rule”.

  This indicates that when the infinitive of a one-syllable verb that contains the vowel “i”, in the past fácil form, this will be replaced by “a” while the participle replaces it by “u”.

• When a verb ends in the consonant “d”, said letter will be conjugated to the past fácil and participle by the letter “t”.

⭐ 5 examples of irregular verbs in English and Spanish

1. The boss said that on Saturday we don’t have to work (The boss said we don’t have to work on Saturday)
2. The cat wants to drink water (The cat wants to drink water)
3. Today I met the teacher (Today I met the teacher)
4. Laura tie a lot of candy (Laura ate many sweets)
5. My husband paid for the wedding dress (My husband paid for the wedding dress)

⭐ Exercises with irregular verbs in English

• My brother _____ a beautiful song (verb to write)
• Emma _______ a lot of water after she ran.

  (verb to drink)

• My mother ____ the cookies (verb to do)
• My son ____ our family on the beach (verb to draw)
• People were angry when Simon ____ what he thought (verb to say)

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