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Irregular Verbs in English
Elementary
This is an irregular verb list a little unlike those you could easily get hold of at your own school. They are listed in order of how often they appear in real English as shown by the famous Lancaster-Bergen corpus. These 50 in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurrence in English. The other 80 irregular verbs in English make up the other 13%. If you tell your students that learning by heart merely the first eleven will equip them to deal with fully 50% of the usage of irregulars in English, they may react very positively.
| Rank | Base Form | Past Tense Form | Past Participle |
| 1 | say | said | said |
| 2 | make | made | made |
| 3 | go | went | gone |
| 4 | take | took | taken |
| 5 | come | came | come |
| 6 | see | saw | seen |
| 7 | know | knew | known |
| 8 | get | got | got/gotten (US) |
| 9 | give | gave | given |
| 10 | find | found | found |
| 11 | think | thought | thought |
| 12 | tell | told | told |
| 13 | become | became | become |
| 14 | show | showed | shown |
| 15 | leave | left | left |
| 16 | feel | felt | felt |
| 17 | put | put | put |
| 18 | bring | brought | brought |
| 19 | begin | began | begun |
| 20 | keep | kept | kept |
| 21 | hold | held | held |
| 22 | write | wrote | written |
| 23 | stand | stood | stood |
| 24 | hear | heard | heard |
| 25 | let | let | let |
| 26 | mean | meant | meant |
| 27 | set | set | set |
| 28 | meet | met | met |
| 29 | run | ran | run |
| 30 | pay | paid | paid |
| 31 | sit | sat | sat |
| 32 | speak | spoke | spoken |
| 33 | lie | lay | lain |
| 34 | lead | led | led |
| 35 | read | read | read |
| 36 | grow | grew | grown |
| 37 | lose | lost | lost |
| 38 | fall | fell | fallen |
| 39 | send | sent | sent |
| 40 | build | built | built |
| 41 | understand | understood | understood |
| 42 | draw | drew | drawn |
| 43 | break | broke | broken |
| 44 | spend | spent | spent |
| 45 | cut | cut | cut |
| 46 | rise | rose | risen |
| 47 | drive | drove | driven |
| 48 | buy | bought | bought |
| 49 | wear | wore | worn |
| 50 | choose | chose | chosen |
