List of 131 English Irregular Verbs and Their Past Participles
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Want to find English verbs that change in an unusual way when expressing completed actions? Here's a list of relevant terms. Here you'll find a selection of English irregular verbs and their past participles.
| Present | Past Participle |
| arise | arisen |
| awake | awoken |
| be | been |
| bear | borne |
| bear | born |
| become | become |
| begin | begun |
| bend | bent |
| bet | bet |
| bid | bid |
| bind | bound |
| bite | bitten |
| bleed | bled |
| blow | blown |
| break | broken |
| breed | bred |
| bring | brought |
| broadcast | broadcast |
| build | built |
| burn | burned |
| burst | burst |
| buy | bought |
| catch | caught |
| choose | chosen |
| cling | clung |
| come | come |
| cost | cost |
| creep | crept |
| cut | cut |
| deal | dealt |
| dig | dug |
| dive | dived |
| do | done |
| draw | drawn |
| dream | dreamed |
| drink | drunk |
| drive | driven |
| eat | eaten |
| fall | fallen |
| feed | fed |
| feel | felt |
| fight | fought |
| find | found |
| fly | flown |
| forbid | forbidden |
| forget | forgotten |
| forgive | forgiven |
| freeze | frozen |
| get | gotten |
| give | given |
| go | gone |
| grind | ground |
| grow | grown |
| hang | hung |
| have | had |
| hear | heard |
| hide | hidden |
| hit | hit |
| hold | held |
| hurt | hurt |
| keep | kept |
| kneel | knelt |
| know | known |
| lay | laid |
| lead | led |
| leave | left |
| lend | lent |
| let | let |
| lie | lain |
| light | lit |
| lose | lost |
| make | made |
| mean | meant |
| meet | met |
| mow | mown |
| overtake | overtaken |
| pay | paid |
| put | put |
| read | read |
| ride | ridden |
| ring | rung |
| rise | risen |
| run | run |
| saw | sawn |
| say | said |
| see | seen |
| sell | sold |
| send | sent |
| set | set |
| sew | sewn |
| shake | shaken |
| shed | shed |
| shine | shone |
| shoot | shot |
| show | shown |
| shrink | shrunk |
| shut | shut |
| sing | sung |
| sink | sunk |
| sit | sat |
| sleep | slept |
| slide | slid |
| sow | sown |
| speak | spoken |
| spend | spent |
| spit | spat |
| spread | spread |
| stand | stood |
| steal | stolen |
| stick | stuck |
| sting | stung |
| stink | stunk |
| strike | struck |
| swear | sworn |
| sweep | swept |
| swell | swollen |
| swim | swum |
| swing | swung |
| take | taken |
| teach | taught |
| tear | torn |
| tell | told |
| think | thought |
| throw | thrown |
| understand | understood |
| wake | woken |
| wear | worn |
| weep | wept |
| win | won |
| wind | wound |
| write | written |
