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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
Sand-cast	Sand-cast	Sand-cast	To make a cast by pouring metal into a mold made of sand.
Saw	Sawed	Sawn/Sawed	To cut wood, etc, with a tool
Say	Said	Said	To speak words
See	Saw	Seen	To notice with your eyes
Seek	Sought	Sought	To try to find something
Self-feed	Self-fed	Self-fed	To feed itself without assistance
Self-sow	Self-sowed	Self-sown/Self-sowed	To sow itself without assistance
Sell	Sold	Sold	To receive money in exchange for goods
Send	Sent	Sent	To cause something to be taken to a specific destination, especially letters, message, etc.
Set	Set	Set	To place something somewhere To fix something in a particular position
Sew	Sewed	Sewn/Sewed	To join pieces of material together using thread
Shake	Shook	Shaken	To vibrate To make something vibrate
Shave	Shaved	Shaven/Shaved	To remove body hair
Shear	Shore/Sheared	Shorn/Sheared	To cut with scissors, especially wool from sheep
Shed	Shed	Shed	To fall off or let something fall off; snakes shed their skin
Shend	Shent	Shent	To shame or disgrace
Shew	Shewed	Shewn/Shewed	Show
Shine	Shone	Shone	To give off or reflect bright light
Shit	Shat/Shit	Shat/Shit	To get rid of solid body waste
Shoe	Shod	Shod	To provide with shoes, especially horses
Shoot	Shot	Shot	To fire a bullet from a gun To kill or hurt somebody with a gun
Shortcut	Shortcut	Shortcut	To use a shorter or quicker way of going somehere or doing something
Show	Showed	Shown	To allow somebody to see something so that they can become aware of it
Shrink	Shrank	Shrunk	To become smaller To make something smaller
Shrive	Shrove	Shriven	To confess or listen to a confession, a religious term
Shut	Shut	Shut	To close something
Sidewind	Sidewound	Sidewound	To move like the sidewinder snake
Sight-read	Sight-read	Sight-read	To read music
Sightsee	Sightsaw	Sightseen	To visit famous monuments, etc
Sing	Sang	Sung	To make music with your voice
Sink	Sank	Sunk	To move downwards in water To make something move downwards in water
Sit	Sat	Sat	To support your body with your buttocks not your feet, with the back in a vertical position as on a chair
Skywrite	Skywrote	Skywritten	To write in the sky with smoke
Slay	Slew	Slain	To kill
Sleep	Slept	Slept	To be in a relaxed state with your eyes closed
Slide	Slid	Slid/Slidden	To move on a smooth surface, such as ice
Sling	Slung	Slung	To throw something somewhere
Slink	Slunk	Slunk	To move in a suspicious and guilty way
Slit	Slit	Slit	To make a long thin cut in something
Smell	Smelt/Smelled	Smelt/Smelled	To detect odours with your nose To emit odours
Smite	Smote	Smitten	To hit
Snapshoot	Snapshot	Snapshot	Take a quick photograph
Sneak	Sneaked/Snuck	Sneaked/Snuck	To move around guiltily or to avoid being noticed
Soothsay	Soothsaid	Soothsaid	To predict the future
Sow	Sowed	Sown	To plant seeds in the ground to produce plants or cereals
Speak	Spoke	Spoken	To say words with your mouth To be able to use a language
Speed	Sped/Speeded	Sped/Speeded	To move quickly To drive faster than legally permitted
Spell	Spelt/Spelled	Spelt/Spelled	To use the correct combination of letters for a word
Spellbind	Spellbound	Spellbound	To put into a trance or captivate
Spend	Spent	Spent	To Use money to buy things To use time or energy doimg something
<>Spill	Spilt/Spilled	Spilt/Spilled	To allow liquids out of their containers accidentally
Spin	Span/Spun	Spun	To turn repeatedly in circles around a fixed point To make something turn repeatedly in circles
Spit	Spat/Spit	Spat/Spit	To eject saliva, liquid or food from the mouth
Split	Split	Split	To divide To break open
Spoil	Spoilt/Spoiled	Spoilt/Spoiled	To let something go bad To go bad
Spoonfeed	Spoonfed	Spoonfed	To give someone information in small and very easy bits
Spread	Spread	Spread	To cover the surface of one thing with something else, like butter on bread
Spring	Sprang	Sprung	To jump To become active
Stall-feed	Stall-fed	Stall-fed	To feed or fatten an animal in a stall
Stand	Stood	Stood	To be in a vertical position with the weight on the feet To get into this position
Stave	Stove/Staved/Stoved	Stove/Staved/Stoved	To break a hole in something
Steal	Stole	Stolen	To take property or money that is not yours
Stick	Stuck	Stuck	To attach things with glue To insert a sharp object into something
Sting	Stung	Stung	To feel pain caused by an insect or plant or in a particular part of the body
Stink	Stank	Stunk	To smell very badly
Straphang	Straphung	Straphung	To hold a strap for support
Strew	Strewed	Strewn/Strewed	To distribute things randomly over a surface
Stride	Strode/Strided	Stridden	To walk confidently
Strike	Struck	Struck/Stricken	To stop working as a protest about working conditions To hit
String	Strung	Strung	To attach something using a cord
Strip	Stript/Stripped	Stript/Stripped	To undress To remove the covering of something
Strive	Strove	Striven	To try very hard to do something
Sublet	Sublet	Sublet	To rent something you have rented
Sunburn	Sunburned/Sunburnt	Sunburned/Sunburnt	To get red skin from being in the sun for too long
Swear	Swore	Sworn	To use words which are regarded as offensive To promise
Sweat	Sweat/Sweated	Sweat/Sweated	To perspire
Sweep	Swept/Sweeped	Swept/Sweeped	To clean floors using a brush
Swell	Swelled	Swollen	To increase in size usually by filling with liquids or gases
Swim	Swam	Swum	To travel in water by moving your arms and legs
Swing	Swung	Swung	To move from side to side from a fixed point
Swink	Swank/Swonk	Swonken	To work, toil or labour
Switch-hit	Switch-hit	Switch-hit	To bat right-handed against a left-handed bowler, or vice versa, in baseball

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