Top 30 Irregular Verbs

Here is the list of the Top 30 irregular verbs in English (and list of Top 30 irregular verbs in PDF). This list contains the 30 most commonly used irregular verbs.

While regular verbs form the past tense by adding the ending -ed, irregular verbs behave differently and need to be learnt by heart.

We also prepared lists of the Top 5, 10, 20, 25 and 50 irregular verbs and top 100 irregular verbs.

Or you may be interested in lists of the TOP 5, 10, 20, 25, 30 and 50 regular verbs.

Each row contains an infinitive first, followed by the simple past (V2) form and the past participle (V3) form. For more detail click on the verb in the infinite form.

Regular verbs have the same simple past (V2) and past participle (V3) form, unlike irregular verbs.

List of TOP 30 irregular verbs:

Infinitive	Simple Past	Past Participle
be	was/were [wɒz] / [wɜː]	been [biːn]
come	came [keɪm]	come [kʌm]
deal	dealt [delt]	dealt [delt]
do / does	did [dɪd]	done [dʌn]
feel	felt [felt]	felt [felt]
find	found [faʊnd]	found [faʊnd]
forget	forgot [fəˈɡɒt]	forgotten [fəˈɡɒtn]
get	got [ɡɒt]	gotten [ɡɒtn]
give	gave [geɪv]	given [ɡɪvn]
go	went [went]	gone [ɡɒn]
have / has	had [hæd]	had [hæd]
hear	heard [hɜːd]	heard [hɜːd]
hold	held [held]	held [held]
hurt	hurt [hɜːt]	hurt [hɜːt]
keep	kept [kept]	kept [kept]
know	knew [njuː]	known [nəʊn]
leave	left [left]	left [left]
let	let [let]	let [let]
make	made [meɪd]	made [meɪd]
mean	meant [ment]	meant [ment]
meet	met [met]	met [met]
put	put [pʊt]	put [pʊt]
run	ran [ræn]	run [rʌn]
say	said [sed]	said [sed]
see	saw [sɔː]	seen [siːn]
show	showed [ʃəʊd]	shown [ʃəʊn]
take	took [tʊk]	taken [ˈteɪkən]
tell	told [told]	told [told]
think	thought [θɔːt]	thought [θɔːt]
understand	understood [ˌʌndəˈstʊd]	understood [ˌʌndəˈstʊd]

We have prepared a complete list of irregular verbs in English. It contains more than 600 verbs, sorted by difficulty. Or look at the special article on verb forms.