Los verbos irregulares en inglés + ejercicios para practicar

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Cuando empezamos a estudiar un nuevo idioma lo más difícil suele ser la gramática y, en el caso del inglés, los verbos irregulares. Pero con esta guía esperamos ayudarte a aprenderlos de manera fácil y duradera, con ejercicios prácticos y ejemplos para que nunca más se te olviden.

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Verbos regulares e irregulares en inglés

En inglés dividimos los verbos en regulares e irregulares.
De forma general, los verbos regulares son los que hacen el pasado y participio añadindo “ED” al final, al paso que los demás no presentan una terminación tan evidente.

A continuación os dejo una lista de los vebos irregulares más comunes en inglés

En esta lista tenéis 3 columnas, la forma base o infinitivo, el pasado simple y el participio pasado que va a ser necesario para los tiempos complejos (present perfect, past perfect, future perfect)

Verb (infinitive)	Past simple form	Past participle
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
buy	bought	bought
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
forgive	forgave	forgiven
get	got	got (BrE) / gotten (AmE)
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown

Verb (infinitive)	Past simple form	Past participle
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
know	knew	known
learn	learned	learnt/learned
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
show	showed	shown
sing	sang	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written

Las "familias" de verbos irregulares

No hay una fórmula mágica para aprender los verbos irregulares, sino hacer muchos ejercicios, leer, escuchar y hablar.
Es importante saber que los verbos irregulares se pueden dividir en diferentes familias de acuerdo con su terminación.
Por ejemplo los verbos "to sing" and to "ring" tinenen una terminación similar.

My friend sang a beautiful song.
The bell rang.

Pon en prática

Ahora te propongo un ejercício.
Buscate en internet un texto en el pasado simple y subraya todos los verbos,
Enseguida haz una lista de los verbos regulares (los que terminan en "ED") y de los irregulares.
Verifica si están en la tabla que te enseñé.

Os dejo un ejemplo:

"Yesterday Debbie had a job interview. She went downtown to the company. The interview was for an accounting job. Debbie graduated university 3 months ago.Her interview was at 10:00 am. She woke up at 7:00 am and left her house before 8:00 am. She waited for the bus, but it was late. She was very worried because she did not want to be late for the interview. She tried to phone the company to warn them, but her phone battery was dead.

When the bus arrived, it was almost 9:00 am. Then the bus was slow because there were many other cars. The bus finally arrived at Debbie’s stop at 9:45 am.
Debbie ran from the bus stop to the office building. When she entered she saw a sign that said the company was on the 24th floor. The elevator ride took almost 5 minutes because many people stopped at different floors.

When Debbie arrived at reception, it was 9:58. She was in time!

“I am here to see Mrs. Lewis” said Debbie.

The receptionist checked her book and replied:

“She is not here today. What is your name please?”

“My name is Debbie Gregson.”

“Sorry Debbie, but your appointment is tomorrow.”

Debbie checked her agenda. It was true. She was there on the wrong day! "

¿Sabes identificar cuáles son los verbos irregulares?