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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
Partake	Partook	Partaken	To take part in something or a part of something, usually food
Pay	Paid	Paid	To give somebody money in exchange for things or services
Pen	Pent/Penned	Pent/Penned	To shut up or enclose in a cage, etc
Pinch-hit	Pinch-hit	Pinch-hit	To bat instead of a player in baseball, especially when a hit is needed
Plead	Pled/Pleaded	Pled/Pleaded	To tell a court that you are guilty or innocent To ask for special treatment by authorities, etc.
Potshot	Potshot/Potshotted	Potshot	To shoot at random To criticise at random
Practice-teach	Practice-taught	Practice-taught	To teach as part of training
Prebind	Prebound	Prebound	To bind before
Prebuild	Prebuilt	Prebuilt	Prefabricate
Precut	Precut	Precut	To cut something before selling or assembling it
Predo	Predid	Predone	To do something before a certain time of stage
Premake	Premade	Premade	To make something before a time or stage
Prepay	Prepaid	Prepaid	To pay for something using it
Presell	Presold	Presold	To sell before a certain time
Preset	Preset	Preset	To arrange something before it is needed
Preshrink	Preshrank	Preshrunk	To shrink a fabric before selling it so that it will not become smaller when washed
Presplit	Presplit	Presplit	To split or divide before a certain time
Price-cut	Price-cut	Price-cut	To cut or reduce prices
Proofread	Proofread	Proofread	To read something checking carefully for mistakes
Prove	Proved	Proven/Proved	To demonstrate that something is true
Put	Put	Put	To place something in a specific position

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