English Irregular Verbs

There are many Irregular Verbs in English which do not conform to the pattern. The principal parts of the English verb are the base form, the simple past, and the past participle. For regular verbs, the simple past and the past participle are spelled the same and are created by adding ed to the base form. However, there are many irregular verbs in English which do not conform to this pattern.

The additional forms of the verb in English are the s form (3rd person singular present), and the present participle, which is created by adding ing to the base form. There are no irregular forms of the present participle, so the spelling of any verb will adhere to the rules of spelling for regular inflection.

A comprehensive list of 619 English irregular verbs, including their base form, past simple, past participle and definitions is here below.

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Cast	Cast	Cast	To throw or project something
Catch	Caught	Caught	To receive To stop and hold a moving object, usually with your hands To make something unable to escape
Cheerlead	Cheerled	Cheerled	To cheer and support a team in an organised group
Chide	Chid	Chid/Chidden	To tell somebody off when they have done something wrong
Choose	Chose	Chosen	To select
Clap	Clapped/Clapt	Clapped/Clapt	To hit your hands together to make a sound to show approval To make a loud noise, like thunder
Clear-cut	Clear-cut	Clear-cut	To cut down all trees in an area
Cleave	Cleft/Cleaved/Clove	Cleft/Cleaved/Cloven	To separate or divide something, often with force To stick or hold together
Cleek	Claught/Claucht/Cleeked	Cleeked	To grasp or take hold of
Clepe	Cleped	Cleped/Ycleped/Yclept	To call or name
Cling	Clung	Clung	To hold on to or to stick to
Clothe	Clad/Clothed	Clad/Clothed	To dress someone or provide them with clothes
Colorbreed	Colorbred	Colorbred	To breed an animal to be of a particular color
Colorcast	Colorcast	Colorcast	To broadcast in color
Come	Came	Come	To move towards or to arrive at a specified place, time or situation
Cost	Cost	Cost	The amount of money required to buy something; it costs five dollars.
Cost-cut	Cost-cut	Cost-cut	To redcuce costs or expenditure
Counterdraw	Counterdrew	Counterdrawn	To copy by tracing
Counterlight	Counterlit	Counterlit	To light something directly from opposite sides
Cowrite	Cowrote	Cowritten	To write with someone
Crash-dive	Crash-dived/Crash-dove	Crash-dived	To go down very quickly
Creep	Crept	Crept	To move along the ground lying down
Creep-feed	Creep-fed	Creep-fed	To feed young animals in a special area that adult animals can't get in
Crib-bite	Crib-bit	Crib-bitten	To bite its manger and swallow air (of a horse)
Cross-bite	Cross-bit	Cross-bitten	To thwart or stop something happening by deception
Cross-string	Cross-strung	Cross-strung	To place bass strings on a piano across the treble strings
Crossbreed	Crossbred	Crossbred	To breed animals or plants of different species, like a mule, which is a crossbreed of a donkey and a horse
Crosscut	Crosscut	Crosscut	To move between scenes or stories in a film or narrative
Crosslight	Crosslit	Crosslit	To illuminate from different sides, but not directly opposite
Crow	Crowed/Crew	Crowed	To boast To utter a sound indicating pleasure
Cut	Cut	Cut	To break the surface of something with a knife or similar tool

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