Irregular Verbs – Most Often Used
Base Form | Past Simple (V2) | Past Participle (V3) |
arise | arose | arisen |
awake | awoke | awoken |
be | was/were | been |
bear | bore | born(e) |
beat | beat | beaten |
become | became | become |
begin | began | begun |
bend | bent | bent |
bet | bet | bet |
bind | bound | bound |
bite | bit | bitten |
bleed | bled | bled |
blow | blew | blown |
break | broke | broken |
breed | bred | bred |
bring | brought | brought |
broadcast | broadcast | broadcast |
build | built | built |
burn | burnt/burned | burnt/burned |
burst | burst | burst |
buy | bought | bought |
can | could | … (been able) |
catch | caught | caught |
choose | chose | chosen |
cling | clung | clung |
come | came | come |
cost | cost | cost |
creep | crept | crept |
cut | cut | cut |
deal | dealt | dealt |
dig | dug | dug |
do | did | done |
draw | drew | drawn |
dream | dreamt/dreamed | dreamt/dreamed |
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 |
forbid | forbade | forbidden |
forget | forgot | forgotten |
forgive | forgave | forgiven |
freeze | froze | frozen |
get | got | got |
give | gave | given |
go | went | gone |
grind | ground | ground |
grow | grew | grown |
hang | hung | 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 |
lean | leant/leaned | leant/leaned |
learn | learnt/learned | learnt/learned |
leave | left | left |
lent | lent | lent |
lie (in bed) | lay | lain |
lie (to not tell the truth) | lied | lied |
light | lit/lighted | lit/lighted |
lose | lost | lost |
make | made | made |
may | might | … |
mean | meant | meant |
meet | met | met |
mow | mowed | mown/mowed |
must | had to | … |
overtake | overtook | overtaken |
pay | paid | paid |
put | put | put |
read | read | read |
ride | rode | ridden |
ring | rang | rung |
rise | rose | risen |
run | ran | run |
saw | sawed | sawn/sawed |
say | said | said |
see | saw | seen |
sell | sold | sold |
send | sent | sent |
set | set | set |
sew | sewed | sewn/sewed |
shake | shook | shaken |
shall | should | … |
shed | shed | shed |
shine | shone | shone |
shoot | shot | shot |
show | showed | shown |
shrink | shrank | shrunk |
shut | shut | shut |
sing | sang | sung |
sink | sank | sunk |
sit | sat | sat |
sleep | slept | slept |
slide | slid | slid |
smell | smelt | smelt |
sow | sowed | sown/sowed |
speak | spoke | spoken |
spell | spelt/spelled | spelt/spelled |
spend | spent | spent |
spill | spilt/spilled | spilt/spilled |
spit | spat | spat |
spread | spread | spread |
stand | stood | stood |
steal | stole | stolen |
stick | stuck | stuck |
sting | stung | stung |
stink | stank | stunk |
strike | struck | struck |
swear | swore | sworn |
sweep | swept | swept |
swell | swelled | swollen/swelled |
swim | swam | swum |
swing | swung | swung |
take | took | taken |
teach | taught | taught |
tear | tore | torn |
tell | told | told |
think | thought | thought |
throw | threw | thrown |
understand | understood | understood |
wake | woke | woken |
wear | wore | worn |
weep | wept | wept |
will | would | … |
win | won | won |
wind | wound | wound |
write | wrote | written |
A complete list of English irregular verbs
Verb forms | Verb class and notes |
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ache/*ake – ached/*oke – ached/*aken | Strong, class 6; now regular. |
bake – baked/*book – baked/*baken | Strong, class 6; now regular except in Northern English dialects. |
be (am, is, are/*be) – was, were – been | Suppletive. See Indo-European copula. |
bear – bore/*bare – borne/born | Strong, class 4. The spelling born is used in passive or adjectival contexts relating to birth. |
beat – beat – beaten/beat | Strong, class 7 |
become – became – become
|
Strong, class 4 |
*beget – begot/*begat – begot/begotten
|
Strong, class 5 |
begin – began – begun | Strong, class 3 |
bend – bent/*bended – bent/*bended | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
beseech – beseeched/*besought – beseeched/*besought | Weak with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law (now regularized) |
bet – bet/betted – bet/betted
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals |
betide – betided/*betid – betided/*betid | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
beware – (no other forms) | Defective; formed from be with predicate adjective, used as infinitive, imperative and subjunctive only. Inflected forms (bewares, bewared, bewaring) are considered obsolete. |
bid [in auctions etc.] – bid – bid | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
bid [meaning to request or say] – bid/*bade – bid/*bidden | Strong, class 5 |
bide – bided/bode – bided/bidden
|
Strong, class 1 |
bind – bound – bound/*bounden | Strong, class 3 |
bite – bit – bitten
|
Strong, class 1 |
bleed – bled – bled | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals |
blend – blended/*blent – blended/*blent | Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
bless – blessed/*blest – blessed/*blest | Weak, regular with alternative (archaic) spelling |
blow – blew – blown
|
Strong, class 7 |
break – broke/*brake – broken/*broke | Strong, class 4 |
breed – bred – bred
|
Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals |
bring – brought – brought | Weak with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law |
build – built – built
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals and devoiced ending |
burn – burned/burnt – burned/burnt
|
Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
burst – burst/*brast – burst/*bursten | Strong, class 3 |
bust – busted/bust – busted/bust | Strong, class 3 (or regular) |
buy – bought – bought/*boughten | Weak with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law |
can [auxiliary verb] – could – (none) | Preterite-present, defective. See English modal verbs |
cast – cast – cast
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals. Many of the prefixed forms can also take -ed. |
catch – caught/*catched – caught/*catched | Weak, French loanword conjugated perhaps by analogy with teach–taught; regular forms are now dialectal. |
chide – chided/chid/*chode – chided/chid/chidden | Strong, class 1 |
choose – chose – chosen
|
Strong, class 2 |
clad – clad – clad | Developed from clad, the past form of clothe (see below). |
clap – clapped/*clapt – clapped/*clapt | |
cleave [meaning to split] – cleft/clove/cleaved/*clave – cleft/cloven/cleaved | Strong, class 2, sometimes switching to weak with vowel shortening. When meaning "adhere" the verb is regular. |
*clepe – cleped/clepen/*clept – cleped/*clept/*clepen/*yclept | Weak with vowel shortening, or regular. Obsolete or dialectal. |
cling – clung/*clang – clung | Strong, class 3 |
clothe – clad/clothed – clad/clothed
|
Weak; the regular clothed is from OE claþian, while clad (weak with coalescence of dentals) is from OE clæþan (both OE verbs having similar meaning).[1] |
comb – combed – combed/kempt | |
come – came – come/comen | Strong, class 4 |
cost [intransitive sense] – cost/costed – cost/costed | Weak with coalescence of dentals. Regular when meaning "calculate the cost of". |
creep – crept/creeped/*crope – crept/creeped/*cropen | Originally strong, class 2; switched to weak with vowel shortening (or regular) |
crow – crowed/crew – crowed/*crown | Strong, class 7. Now usually regular, but crew can still be used of a cock's crowing. |
cut – cut – cut | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
dare (dares/dare) – dared/*durst – dared | Preterite-present, now regular except in the use of dare in place of dares in some contexts. See English modal verbs |
deal – dealt – dealt | Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending |
dig – dug/*digged – dug/*digged
|
Originally weak; past form dug developed by analogy with stick–stuck[2] |
dive – dived/dove – dived/dove | Weak, the alternative dove (found mainly in American usage) arising by analogy with strong verbs |
do (does /d?z/) – did – done | Irregular since Proto-Germanic: past tense formed by reduplication. Past participle from Old English gedon. Related to deed. |
dow – dowed/dought – dowed/dought | Related to doughty. |
drag – dragged/*drug – dragged/*drug | Strong, class 6, now usually regular; drug is used in some dialects |
draw – drew – drawn | Strong, class 6; related to draft/draught |
dream – dreamed/dreamt/*drempt – dreamed/dreamt/*drempt
|
Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending (or regular) |
dress – dressed/*drest – dressed/*drest | Weak with alternative (archaic) spelling |
drink – drank/*drunk/*drinked – drunk/*drank/*drinked/*drunken | Strong, class 3; related to drench |
drive – drove/*drave – driven
|
Strong, class 1; related to drift |
dwell – dwelt/dwelled – dwelt/dwelled | Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
earn – earned/earnt – earned/earnt | Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
eat – ate/*et – eaten | Strong, class 5. Past tense usually /e?t/, sometimes /?t/ in British English. |
fall – fell/*felled – fallen/*felled
|
Strong, class 7 |
feed – fed – fed
|
Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals |
feel – felt – felt
|
Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending |
fight – fought – fought/*foughten | Strong, class 3 |
find – found/*fand – found/*founden
|
Strong, class 3 |
fit – fitted/fit – fitted/fit
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals |
flee – fled – fled | Originally strong, class 2, switched to weak with vowel shortening |
fling – flung – flung | By analogy with strong, class 3 |
fly – flew – flown | Strong, class 2. Regular when used for hitting a fly ball in baseball. |
forbid – forbid/forbade/forbad – forbidden | Strong, class 5 |
forget – forgot/*forgat – forgotten/*forgot | Strong, class 5 |
*forlese – forlore – forlorn | Past participle remains in use adjectivally. |
forsake – forsook – forsaken | Strong, class 6 |
freeze – froze – frozen
|
Strong, class 2 |
get – got/*gat – got/gotten | Strong, class 5. Past participle is got in British usage (except in fossilized phrases such as "ill-gotten"), and gotten in American (but see have got). |
gild – gilded/gilt – gilded/gilt | Weak with coalescence of dentals and devoiced ending (or regular) |
gird – girded/*girt – girded/*girt
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals and devoiced ending (or regular) |
give – gave – given | Strong, class 5 |
go – went – gone | Suppletive. See article on the verb go. |
*grave – grove/graved – graven/graved | Strong, class 6. Past participle graven remains in use adjectivally, as in graven images in archaic language, e.g. from the 17th century. The verb engrave is regular. |
grind – ground/grinded – ground/grinded/*grounden | Strong, class 3 |
grow – grew/*growed – grown/*growed | Strong, class 7 |
hang – hung/hanged – hung/hanged | Strong, class 7. Regularized alternative hanged was influenced by OE causative hangian, and is used chiefly for hanging as a means of execution. |
have (has) – had – had | Weak; had results from contraction, from OE haefd. Third person present has also a result of contraction. |
hear – heard – heard | Weak, originally with vowel shortening (the modern pronunciation of heard in RP has the long vowel /??/) |
heave – heaved/*hove – heaved/*hove/*hoven
|
Strong, class 6, now usually regular except in nautical uses |
help – helped/*holp – helped/*holpen | Originally strong, class 6, but now weak. |
hew – hewed/*hew – hewed/hewn
|
Strong, class 7 (or regular) |
hide – hid – hidden/*hid | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals, influenced by strong verbs |
hit – hit – hit | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
hoist – hoisted/hoist – hoisted/hoist | Weak, hoist was originally the past form of the now archaic verb hoise |
hold – held – held/*holden | Strong, class 7 |
hurt – hurt – hurt | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
keep – kept – kept | Weak with vowel shortening |
ken – kenned/kent – kenned/kent | Northern and Scottish dialect word. Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
kneel – knelt/kneeled – knelt/kneeled | Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending (or regular) |
knit – knit/knitted – knit/knitted | Weak with coalescence of dentals (or regular); related to knot |
know – knew – known/*knowen | Strong, class 7 |
lade – laded – laden/laded
|
Strong, class 6, often regularized (past participle laden is common adjectivally) |
laugh – laughed/*laught/*laugh'd/*low – laughed/*laught/*laugh'd/*laughen | Originally strong, now weak, regular, with alternative (archaic) spelling |
lay – laid/*layed – laid/*layed
|
Weak, irregular in spelling only |
lead – led – led | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals |
lean – leaned/leant – leaned/leant | Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending (or regular) |
leap – leaped/leapt/*lept/*lope – leaped/leapt/*lopen
|
Originally strong, class 7, now weak with vowel shortening (or regular) |
learn – learned/learnt – learned/learnt | Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
leave – left – left/*laft | Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending |
lend – lent – lent
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals and devoiced ending |
let – let/*leet – let/*letten | Strong, class 7 |
lie – lay – lain | Strong, class 5. Regular in the meaning "tell an untruth". |
light – lit/lighted – lit/lighted
|
Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
lose – lost – lost | Originally strong, class 2, now weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending |
make – made – made | Weak; made formed by contraction from "maked" |
may – might – (none) | Preterite-present, defective. See English modal verbs |
mean – meant – meant | Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending |
meet – met – met | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals |
melt – melted/*molt – melted/molten | Strong, class 3. Now regularized, but molten survives in adjectival uses. |
mix – mixed/*mixt – mixed/*mixt | Weak, regular, with alternative (mostly archaic) spelling |
mow – mowed – mowed/mown | Strong, class 7. Now regularized in past tense and sometimes in past participle. |
must – (no other forms) | Defective; originally a preterite. See English modal verbs |
need (needs/need) – needed – needed | Weak, regular except in the use of need in place of needs in some contexts, by analogy with can, must, etc.[3] See English modal verbs |
ought – (no other forms) | Defective; originally a preterite. See English modal verbs |
pay – paid/*payed – paid/*payed | Weak, irregular in spelling only. The spelling payed is used in the meaning of letting out a rope etc. |
pen – penned/pent – penned/pent | Weak with devoiced ending, but usually regular; pent is sometimes used when the verb has the meaning "to enclose", and mainly adjectivally |
plead – pled/pleaded – pled/pleaded | French loanword, weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals. In North America, this verb is usually irregular. |
prove – proved – proved/proven
|
French loanword, weak, with the alternative past participle proven by analogy with some strong verbs |
put – put – put/*putten | Weak with coalescence of dentals. Past participle form putten is characteristic for Yorkshire and Lancashire dialects. |
*queath/*quethe – queathed/quethed/quoth/quod – queathed/quethed/quoth/quethen
|
Strong, class 5. Past tense quoth is literary or archaic; other parts of that verb are obsolete. Bequeath is normally regularized in -ed. |
quit – quit/quitted – quit/quitted | French loanword, weak, with coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
reach – reached/*raught/*rought/*retcht – reached/*raught/*rought/*retcht | Weak, now regular (archaic raught from original conjugation like teach) |
read /ri?d/ – read /r?d/ – read /r?d/ / *readen | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals |
*reave – reaved/reft – reaved/reft
|
Weak with vowel shortening and devoiced ending. The verb bereave is usually regular, but bereft survives as past participle, with distinct meanings. |
rend – rent – rent | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
rid – rid/ridded – rid/ridden/ridded | Weak with coalescence of dentals, or regular; ridden by analogy with strong verbs. |
ride – rode/*rid – ridden/*rid | Strong, class 1 |
ring – rang/*rung – rung | By analogy with strong, class 3. Regular when meaning "surround", etc. |
rise – rose – risen | Strong, class 1 |
rive – rived/rove – rived/riven | From Old Norse, originally followed pattern of strong class 1, later regularized.[4] Now rarely used. |
run – ran – run | Strong, class 3 |
saw – sawed – sawed/sawn | Weak; sawn by analogy with strong verbs[5] |
say (says /s?z/) – said – said | Weak, with vowel shortening in said /s?d/ and in the third person present says /s?z/ |
see – saw – seen | Strong, class 5 |
seek – sought – sought
|
Weak with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law |
seethe – seethed/*sod – seethed/*sodden | Strong, class 2. Now regular, but sodden survives in some adjectival uses. |
sell – sold – sold | Weak with Rückumlaut |
send – sent – sent | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
set – set – set/*setten
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals |
sew – sewed – sewn/sewed/*sewen | Weak; sewn by analogy with strong verbs |
shake – shook – shaken
|
Strong, class 6 |
shall – should – (none) | Preterite-present; defective. See English modal verbs, and shall and will |
shape – shaped/*shope – shaped/*shapen | Originally strong, class 6, now regular, but with misshapen (and archaically shapen) still used adjectivally |
shave – shaved/*shove – shaved/shaven | Strong, class 6, now regular, but shaven sometimes used adjectivally |
shear – sheared/shore – shorn/sheared | Strong, class 4 (or regular) |
shed – shed – shed | Strong, class 7 |
shine – shone/shined – shone/shined | Strong, class 1 |
shit – shit/shitted/shat – shit/shitted/shat/*shitten
|
Strong, class 1. The form shite is chiefly Scottish and Irish. |
shoe – shod/shoed – shodden/shod/shoed
|
Weak with vowel shortening (or regular); shodden by analogy with strong verbs |
shoot – shot – shot/*shotten
|
Strong, class 2 |
show – showed/*shew – shown/showed/*shewed | Weak, with participle shown perhaps by analogy with sown (from sow) |
shrink – shrank/shrunk – shrunk/shrunken
|
Strong, class 3; shrunken is mostly used adjectivally |
*shrive – shrived/*shrove – shrived/*shriven | Strong, class 1 |
shut – shut – shut
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals |
sing – sang – sung/*sungen
|
Strong, class 3 |
sink – sank/sunk – sunk/sunken | Strong, class 3. The form sunken appears in some adjectival uses. |
sit – sat/*sate – sat/*sitten | Strong, class 5 |
slay – slew/slayed – slain/slayed | Strong, class 6 (or regular) |
sleep – slept – slept
|
Originally strong, class 7, now weak with vowel shortening |
slide – slid – slid/slidden | Strong, class 1 |
sling – slung/*slang – slung | Strong, class 3 |
slink – slunk/slinked/slank – slunk/slinked/slank | Strong, class 3 |
slip – slipped/*slipt – slipped/*slipt
|
Regular, with alternative (archaic) spelling |
slit – slit – slit/slitten | Strong, class 1 |
smell – smelled/smelt – smelled/smelt | Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
smite – smote/*smit – smitten/smitted | Strong, class 1. Largely archaic; smitten is quite commonly used adjectivally. |
sneak – sneaked/snuck – sneaked/snuck/*snucked | Weak, alternative form snuck (chiefly American) by analogy with strong verbs |
sow – sowed/*sew – sown/sowed | Strong, class 7, with regularized past tense sowed |
speak – spoke/*spake – spoken/*spoke
|
Strong, class 5 |
speed – sped/speeded – sped/speeded | Weak with vowel shortening and coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
spell – spelled/spelt – spelled/spelt
|
Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
spend – spent – spent | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
spill – spilled/spilt – spilled/spilt
|
Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
spin – spun/*span – spun
|
Strong, class 3 |
spit – spat/spit – spat/spit | Weak with coalescence of dentals (for past form spit, which is common in America), or spat by analogy with strong verbs. (In the meaning of roast on a spit, the verb is regular.) |
split – split – split | Weak with coalescence of dentals |
spoil – spoiled/spoilt – spoiled/spoilt | Weak with devoiced ending (or regular) |
spread – spread/*spreaded – spread/*spreaded
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals |
spring – sprang/sprung – sprung/*sprang
|
Strong, class 3 |
stand – stood – stood/*standen
|
Strong, class 6 |
starve – starved/*starf/*storve – starved/*storven | Strong, class 3 |
stave – stove/staved – stove/staved/*stoven | Originally weak; irregular forms developed by analogy with strong verbs.[6] |
stay – stayed/*staid – stayed/*staid | Regular, with alternative spelling staid (now limited to certain adjectival uses) |
steal – stole – stolen | Strong, class 4 |
stick – stuck/*sticked – stuck/*sticked | Originally weak, irregular forms by analogy with strong verbs |
sting – stung/*stang – stung | Strong, class 3 |
stink – stank/stunk – stunk | Strong, class 3 |
stretch – stretched/*straught/*straight – stretched/*straught/*straight | Weak, now regular; obsolete past form straught as with teach–taught |
strew – strewed – strewn/strewed | Originally weak, irregular forms by analogy with strong verbs |
stride – strode/*strided – stridden/*strode/*strid/*stridded
|
Strong, class 1 |
strike – struck – struck/stricken
|
Strong, class 1. The form stricken is limited to certain adjectival and specialist uses. |
string – strung/*stringed – strung/*stringed
|
Originally weak, irregular forms developed by analogy with strong verbs |
strip – stripped/stript – stripped/stript | |
strive – strove/strived – striven/strived
|
Strong, class 1 (or regularized) |
swear – swore – sworn | Strong, class 6 |
sweat – sweated/sweat – sweated/sweat | Weak, usually regular, possible past form sweat with coalescence of dentals |
sweep – swept/*sweeped – swept/*sweeped
|
Weak with vowel shortening |
swell – swelled/*swole/*swelt – swollen/swelled
|
Strong, class 3, with regularized forms |
*swelt – swelted/*swolt – swelted/*swolten | Strong, class 3 (or regularized). Archaic |
swim – swam/*swum – swum
|
Strong, class 3 |
swing – swang/swung – swung/*swungen
|
Strong, class 3 |
*swink – swank/swonk/*swinkt/swinked – swunk/swunken/swonken/*swinkt/swinked | Strong, class 3 |
take – took/*taked – taken
|
Strong, class 6 |
teach – taught/*teached – taught/*teached | Weak with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law |
tear – tore – torn
|
Strong, class 4 |
*tee – teed/tow – teed/town | |
tell – told/*telled – told/*telled | Weak with Rückumlaut; related to tale |
think – thought/*thinked – thought/*thinked | Weak with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law |
thrive – throve/thrived/*thrave – thriven/thrived | Of Old Norse origin; followed strong class 1 (now archaic) or weak (regular) pattern[7] |
throw – threw/*throwed – thrown/*throwed
|
Strong, class 7 |
thrust – thrust/*thrusted – thrust/*thrusted
|
Weak, with coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
tread – trod/*tread/*treaded/*trodden – trodden/trod/*tread/*treaded
|
Strong, class 5 (or regularized) |
vex – vexed/*vext – vexed/*vext | |
wake – woke/*waked – woken/*waked
|
Strong, class 6 |
wax – waxed/*wex – waxed/*waxen | Strong, class 7, now regularized |
wear – weared/wore – weared/worn | Originally weak, fell into a strong pattern by analogy with bear |
weave – wove – woven
|
Strong, class 7 |
wed – wed/wedded – wed/wedded | Weak with coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
weep – wept/weeped – wept/weeped
|
Originally strong, class 7, now weak with vowel shortening |
wend – wended/*went – wended/*went | Weak, once with coalescence of dentals and devoiced ending, but now regular; went is used as the past of go |
wet – wet/wetted – wet/wetted
|
Weak with coalescence of dentals (or regular) |
will – would – (none) | Preterite-present, defective. See English modal verbs, and shall and will. (In non-auxiliary uses the verb is regular.) |
win – won – won | Strong, class 3 |
wind – wound – wound | Strong, class 3. (The identically spelt verb wind /w?nd/, with meanings connected with air flow and breathlessness, is regular.) |
work – worked/*wrought – worked/*wrought
|
Weak, now regular, formerly with Rückumlaut and metathesis of r and o |
*worth – worth/worthed – worth/worthed/worthen | Strong, class 3, or regularized |
wreak – wreaked/*wrought/*wrack/*wroke – wreaked/*wrought/*wreaken/*wroken | Weak, usually regular; wrought (which is in fact from work) has come sometimes to be identified with this verb (perhaps by analogy with seek–sought). Other forms by analogy with strong verbs. |
wring – wrang/wrung/*wringed – wrung/*wringed | Strong, class 3 |
write – wrote/*writ – written/*writ
|
Strong, class 1 |
writhe – writhed/*wrothe – writhed/*writhen | Strong, class 1, now regularized |
zinc – zinced/zinked/zincked – zinced/zinked/zincked |
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