This document provides a list of 45 common irregular past tense verbs in English. It includes the base form of the verb, the past simple form, and the past participle. Examples are given for each verb. The purpose is to help learners practice and learn the irregular forms of English verbs.

1. Irregular past tense verbs are
used all the time in English.
Practise pronouncing these
common irregular past-tense
verbs. And do our little exercise
to help you learn them.
[This is the second part of a
two-part series. The verbs in brackets
are (in order): the main verb; the
past tense; the past participle.]
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1. (let, let, let) They let us stay at their .
2. (lie, lay, lain) I lay down on the .
3. (light, lit, lit) They lit the .
4. (lose, lost, lost) I lost all my money in the .
5. (make, made, made) He made a delicious .
6. (mean, meant, meant) I meant to fix the but I didn’t have time.
7. (meet, met, met) I met her at a .
8. (pay, paid, paid) They paid us for the .
9. (put, put, put) She put her bag on the .
10. (read, read, read) I read the in just two days.
11. (ride, rode, ridden) She rode the across the field.
12. (ring, rang, rung) The rang about six times.
13. (run, ran, run) We ran because it was raining.
14. (say, said, said) She said she was in .
15. (see, saw, seen) I saw the last night.
16. (sell, sold, sold) She sold the .
17. (send, sent, sent) They sent the last week.
18. (shake, shook, shaken) I shook hands with the .
19. (shine, shone, shone) The sun shone through the .
20. (shoot, shot, shot) They shot at the enemy .
21. (show, showed, shown) I showed her the .
22. (shut, shut, shut) I shut the .
45
irregular
past simple
verbs!
45
irregular
past simple
verbs!
How to
say
How to
say
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*Smelt, spelt, spoilt
Smelt (past and past participle) = smelled in US English
Spelt (past and past participle) = spelled in US English
Spoilt (past participle) = spoiled in US English
23. (sing, sang, sung) We sang the .
24. (sink, sank, sunk) The boat sank in the .
25. (sit, sat, sat) I sat down on the .
26. (sleep, slept, slept) She slept for about hours.
27. (smell, smelt, smelt*) The smelt good.
28. (speak, spoke, spoken) We spoke to them last .
29. (spell, spelt, spelt*) I spelt the for him.
30. (spend, spent, spent) I spent all my .
31. (spoil, spoilt, spoilt*) I spoilt the by putting too much salt in it.
32. (spread, spread, spread) He spread the on the toast.
33. (stand, stood, stood) I stood up when he walked into the .
34. (steal, stole, stolen) They stole the .
35. (stick, stuck, stuck) She stuck the on the wall.
36. (take, took, taken) I took a because it was late.
37. (teach, taught, taught) They taught us how to use the new .
38. (tell, told, told) I told her the .
39. (think, thought, thought) We thought about leaving _____.
40. (throw, threw, thrown) They threw the away.
41. (understand, understood, understood) They understood the .
42. (wake, woke, woken) I woke up at about am.
43. (wear, wore, worn) He wore some new .
44. (win, won, won) She won the .
45. (write, wrote, written) They wrote the .