Irregular Verbs Chart

Some verbs are very irregular:

be	was / were	been	être
come	came	come	venir
do	did	done	faire
go	went	gone	aller
have	had	had	avoir

Some verbs follow the vowel pattern i - a- u:

begin	began	begun	commencer
drink	drank	drunk	boire
sing	sang	sung	chanter
sink	sank	sunk	couler
swim	swam	swum	nager

Some verbs end in -aught/-ought in both the preterite and past participle:

bring	brought	brought	apporter
buy	bought	bought	acheter
catch	caught	caught	attraper
teach	taught	taught	enseigner
think	thought	thought	penser

Many other verbs have the same preterite and past participle forms:

feel	felt	felt	se sentir
find	found	found	trouver
leave	left	left	partir, quitter
lose	lost	lost	perdre
make	made	made	faire, fabriquer
read	read	read	lire
say	said	said	dire
sit	sat	sat	être assis
sleep	slept	slept	dormir

Irregular preterite - past participle based on the present, ends with -n:

drive	drove	driven	conduire
eat	ate	eaten	manger
fall	fell	fallen	tomber
give	gave	given	donner
know	knew	known	savoir, connaître
see	saw	seen	voir
take	took	taken	prendre
write	wrote	written	écrire

Irregular preterite form - past participle based on the preterite, ends with -n:

break	broke	broken	casser
choose	chose	chosen	choisir
forget	forgot	forgotten	oublier
speak	spoke	spoken	parler
wear	wore	worn	porter (vêtements)

Some verbs do not change at all for present, preterite or past participle:

cost	cost	cost	coûter
cut	cut	cut	couper
hit	hit	hit	frapper
hurt	hurt	hurt	se blesser
put	put	put	mettre
shut	shut	shut	fermer