Irregular Verbs

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Irregular Verbs

• Roberta Grandi Università della Valle dAosta

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Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

• be
  
  
  
• bear
  
• beat
  
• become
  
• begin
  
• bend
  
• bet
  
• bind
  
• bite
• blow
• break
• bring
• broadcast
• build
• burn
• buy

• was/were - been
• bore - born(e)
• beat - beaten
• became - become
• began - begun
• bent - bent
• bet - bet
• bound - bound
• bit - bitten
• blew -blown
• broke - broken
• brought - brought
• broadcast - broadcast
• built - built
• burnt/burned - burnt/burned
• bought - bought

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• Infinitive form

• Past simple Past participle

Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

• catch
• choose
• come
• cost
• cut
• deal
• dig
• do
• draw
• dream
• drink
•  drive
•  eat
•  fall

• caught - caught
• chose - chosen
• came - come
• cost - cost
• cut - cut
• dealt - dealt
• dug - dug
• did - done
• drew - drawn
• dreamt/dreamed - dreamt/dreamed
• drank - drunk
• drove - driven
• ate - eaten
• fell - fallen

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• Past simple Past participle

Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

• feed
•  feel
•  fight
•  find
•  fly
• forbid
•  forget
•  forgive
•  freeze
• get
•  give
•  go
•  grow
•  hang
•  have

• fed - fed
• felt - felt
• fought - fought
• found - found
• flew - flown
• forbade - forbidden
• forgot - forgotten
• forgave - forgiven
• froze - frozen
• got - got
• gave - given
• went - gone
• grew - grown
• hung - hung
• had - had

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Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

• Past simple Past participle

• heard - heard
• hid - hidden
• hit - hit
• held - held
• hurt - hurt
• kept - kept
• knelt - knelt
• knew - known
• laid - laid
• led - led
• learnt/learned - learnt/learned
• left - left
• lent - lent

• hear
• hide
• hit
•  hold
• hurt
• keep
• kneel
• know
• lay
• lead
• learn
• leave
• lend

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Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

•   let
•  lose
•  make
•  mean
• meet
• overtake
• pay
•  put
•  read
• ride
•  ring
• rise
•  run
• say
• see
• sell

• let let
• lost - lost
• made - made
• meant - meant
• met - met
• overtook - overtaken
• paid - paid
• put - put
• read - read
• rode - ridden
• rang - rung
• rose - risen
• ran - run
• said - said
• saw - seen
• sold - sold

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Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

• send
• set
•  shake
•  shine
• shoot
• show
• shut
• sing
•  sink
• sit
• sleep
• smell
• speak
• spend
• spread
• stand
• steal

• sent - sent
• set - set
• shook - shaken
• shone - shone
• shot - shot
• showed - shown
• shut - shut
• sang - sung
• sank - sunk
• sat - sat
• slept - slept
• smelt - smelt
• spoke - spoken
• spent - spent
• spread - spread
• stood - stood
• stole stolen

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• Infinitive form

• Past simple Past participle

Infinitive form Past simple Past participle

• sting
• strike
• swear
• swim
• take
• teach
• tear
• tell
• think
• throw
• understand
• wake
• wear
• win
• write

• stung - stung
• struck - struck
• swore - sworn
• swam - swum
• took - taken
• taught - taught
• tore - torn
• told - told
• thought - thought
• threw - thrown
• understood - understood
• woke - woken
• wore - worn
• won - won
• wrote - written