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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
Make	Made	Made	To create or construct something To cause somebody to do something To perform an action
Mean	Meant	Meant	To signify To intend
Meet	Met	Met	To make somebody's acquaintance To be in the same place as somebody
Melt	Melted	Molten/Melted	To change from solid into a liquid as the temperature goes up
Misbecome	Misbecame	Misbecome	Not to suit
Miscast	Miscast	Miscast	To choose the wrong actor for a role
Mischoose	Mischose	Mischosen	To choose wrongly
Miscut	Miscut	Miscut	To cut something wrongly or badly
Misdeal	Misdealt	Misdealt	To distribute playing cards wrongly in a game
Misdo	Misdid	Misdone	To harm or injure
Misfall	Misfell	Misfallen	To happen unluckily
Misfeed	Misfed	Misfed	To feed incorrectly To jam printers, photocpiers, etc, by feeding the paper incorrectly
Misgive	Misgave	Misgiven	To become suspicious or worried
Mishear	Misheard	Misheard	To hear something incorrectly
Mishit	Mishit	Mishit	To hit a ball badly or inaccurately
Misknow	Misknew	Misknown	To have the wrong idea about something
Mislay	Mislaid	Mislaid	To lose or put something where you cannot find it
Mislead	Misled	Misled	To make someone behave wrongly To deceive
Mislearn	Mislearnt/Mislearned	Mislearnt/Mislearned	To learn wrongly
Misread	Misread	Misread	To read something incorrectly
Missay	Missaid	Missaid	To say something incorrectly To talk badly about someone
Missend	Missent	Missent	To send to the wrong place or person
Misset	Misset	Misset	To set or place wrongly or incorrectly
Misspeak	Misspoke	Misspoken	To say or pronounce something wrongly To say something that is incorrect or inaccurate
Misspell	Misspelt/Misspelled	Misspelt/Misspelled	To write a word without using the correct letters
Misspend	Misspent	Misspent	To waste time or money
Misswear	Misswore	Missworn	To swear or make an oath falsely
Mistake	Mistook	Mistaken	Not to understand To confuse somebody with someone else
Misteach	Mistaught	Mistaught	To teach wrongly or incorrectly
Mistell	Mistold	Mistold	To tell something wrongly
Misthink	Misthought	Misthought	To have mistaken thoughts or ideas
Misunderstand	Misunderstood	Misunderstood	Not to understand
Miswear	Misswore	Misworn	To wear badly
Miswed	Miswed/Miswedded	Miswed/Miswedded	To marry wrongly
Miswrite	Miswrote	Miswritten	To write something incorrectly
Moonlight	Moonlit	Moonlit	To have a second job or to work illegally without paying tax
Mow	Mowed	Mown	To cut grass or cereals

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