Regular verbs, yang dalam bahasa Indonesia disebut “Kata Kerja Beraturan“, adalah kata-kata kerja dimana bentuk verb1 ke verb2 atau ke verb3  berubah dengan menambahkan imbuhan -ed, atau hanya dengan menambahkan imbuhan -d saja jika verb-nya diakhiri dengan huruf e. Misalnya: dare – dared – dared (berani, lancang); encourage  – encouraged – encouraged (mendorong/memicu semangat), dst.
Sebaliknya, irregular verbs (Kata Kerja Tidak Beraturan) adalah kata-kata kerja yang perubahan dari verb1 ke verb2 atau ke verb3  tidak dengan menambahkan imbuhan -ed, atau -d. Kata-kata kerja ini berubah secara tidak beraturan.
Mengingat jumlah kata kerja sangat banyak dan sebagian besar merupakan regular verbs, maka yang perlu dihafalkan adalah irregular verbs. Kata-kata dalam tabel berikut adalah common irregular verbs atau kata kerja tidak beraturan yang sering digunakan baik dalam speaking maupun writing.
Verb1
Verb2
Verb3
Penggunaan
arise
arose
arisen
awake
awoke
awaken
Click
be
be
been
is
was
been
am
was
been
are
were
been
become
became
become
begin
began
begun
blow
blew
blown
break
broke
broken
bring
brought
brought
build
built
built
burst
burst
burst
buy
bought
bought
catch
caught
caught
choose
chose
chosen
come
came
come
cut
cut
cut
deal
dealt
dealt
do
did
done
Click
drink
drank
drunk
drive
drove
driven
eat
ate
eaten
fall
fell
fallen
feed
fed
fed
feel
felt
felt
fight
fought
fought
find
found
found
fit
fit
fit
fly
flew
flown
forbid
forbade
forbidden
forget
forgot
forgotten
forgive
forgave
forgiven
freeze
froze
frozen
get
got
got, gotten
Click
give
gave
given
go
went
gone
grow
grew
grown
have
had
had
hear
heard
heard
hide
hid
hidden
hit
hit
hit
hold
held
held
hurt
hurt
hurt
keep
kept
kept
know
knew
known
lay
laid
laid
lead
led
led
leave
left
left
let
let
let
lie
lay
lain
lose
lost
lost
make
made
made
meet
met
met
pay
paid
paid
quit
quit
quit
read
read
read
ride
rode
ridden
ring
rang
rung
rise
rose
risen
run
ran
run
say
said
said
see
saw
seen
seek
sought
sought
sell
sold
sold
send
sent
sent
set
set
set
shake
shook
shaken
shine
shone
shone
sing
sang
sung
sit
sat
sat
sleep
slept
slept
speak
spoke
spoken
spend
spent
spent
spring
sprang
sprung
stand
stood
stood
steal
stole
stolen
swim
swam
swum
swing
swung
swung
take
took
taken
teach
taught
taught
tear
tore
torn
tell
told
told
think
thought
thought
throw
threw
thrown
understand
understood
understood
wake
woke
woken
wear
wore
worn
win
won
won
write
wrote
written

How to memorize irregular verbs?

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