Verbs are the ‘doing words’, the action words, of the English language. They can be fairly easy to learn in ‘present’ form but verbs in past tense can be difficult. Knowing when and how to use verbs in past tense will be a huge step between learning a language and knowing that language – so take a look at our table and see how many words English list of verbs in past you know!
| Present | Past | Present | Past | Present | Past |
| play | Played | fight | Fought | sell | Sold |
| believe | Believed | buy | Bought | tell | Told |
| kill | Killed | bring | Brought | get | Got |
| lie | Lied | think | Thought | forget | Forgot |
| clean | Cleaned | lose | Lost | ||
| consider | Considered | try | Tried | make | Made |
| live | Lived | cry | Cried | give | Gave |
| learn | Learned | fry | Fried | come | Came |
| use | Used | become | Became | ||
| speak | Spoke | eat | Ate | ||
| start | Started | choose | Chose | take | Took |
| invest | Invested | drive | Drove | stand | Stood |
| celebrate | Celebrated | write | Wrote | understand | Understood |
| decide | Decided | break | Broke | read | Read |
| succeed | Succeeded | freeze | Froze | go | Went |
| land | Landed | cut | Cut | find | Found |
| remind | Reminded | let | Let | do | Did |
| trust | Trusted | cost | Cost | see | Saw |
| compete | Competed | hurt | Hurt | hide | Hid |
| bet | Bet | drink | Drank | ||
| thank | Thanked | pay | Paid | build | Built |
| stop | Stopped | say | Said | wear | Wore |
| talk | Talked | blow | Blew | Am/are/is | Was/were |
| walk | Walked | fly | Flew | have | Had |
| dance | Danced | grow | Grew | hear | Heard |
| watch | Watched | throw | Threw | begin | Began |
| cook | Cooked | know | Knew | bite | Bit |
| bake | Baked | meet | Met | swim | Swam |
| introduce | Introduced | send | Sent | leave | Left |
| fix | Fixed | hold | Held | burn | Burnt |
| fall | Fell | sit | Sat | ||
| catch | Caught | lend | Lent | run | Ran |
| teach | Taught | keep | Kept | win | Won |
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