En inglés se llaman verbos regulares a aquellos que forman el pasado agregando el sufijo ‘ed’ o ‘d’ a la raíz del verbo. Este marcador de pasado ayuda a reconocer a este tipo de verbos en un texto escrito.
Los verbos irregulares en inglés, por su parte, son aquellos cuya conjugación no retoma la terminación –ed en sus formas de pretérito y pasado participio.
Cabe destacar que los verbos irregulares cumplen las mismas funciones que los verbos regulares, es decir, expresar estados o acciones, y se ubican dentro de la oración en la misma posición que los regulares.
Te presentamos los primeros doce verbos irregulares de uso común
| Verbo | Presente | Pasado simple | Pasado participio | Traducción |
| To be
|
Am, Are, Is
I am a teacher |
Was, Were
I was a teacher |
Been
I have been a teacher |
Ser o estar |
| Break | Break
You always break the rules |
broke
You broke the rules |
broken
You have broken the rules |
Romper |
| Bring | Bring
She brings bread for dinner |
brought
She brought bread for dinner |
brought
She has brought bread for dinner |
Traer |
| Burn | Burn
|
burnt/burned
My dad burnt the hive in the backyard |
burnt/burned
|
Quemar
|
| Build | Build
|
built
They built the house in 1992 |
built
|
construir
|
| Buy | Buy | bought
Charles bought a new car |
bought | comprar |
| Bend | Bend | bent
The magician bent the spoon with his mind |
bent | doblar |
| Eat | Eat | ate
We ate in the car |
eaten
All the food was eaten in the car |
comer |
| Drink | Drink | drank
They drank all the night |
drunk | beber |
| Send | Send | sent
I know you sent me a message |
sent | enviar |
| Take | Take | took
We took the bus to go to the cinema |
taken | tomar |
| Shake | Shake | shook |
A continuación, aprende cómo usar los siguientes trece verbos irregulares de uso común.
| Verbo | Presente | Pasado simple | Pasado participio | Traducción |
| Understand | Understand | understood
Maybe you understood more than you think |
understood | entender |
| Go | Go | went | gone
I haven’t gone to church since your wedding. |
Ir |
| Win | Win | won
Brazil has won five world cups |
won | ganar |
| Read | Read
I read five books during my holidays |
read | read | leer |
| Put | Put
My mom dosen´t remember where she put her cellphone |
put | put | poner |
| Cut | Cut | cut
I had my hair cut last weekend |
cut | cortar |
| Freeze | Freeze | froze
Jhon froze his soda |
frozen | congelar |
| Speak | Speak | spoke
She spoke by phone with the boss |
spoken | hablar |
| See | See | saw
I saw you last night in that restaurant |
seen | ver |
| Sleep | Sleep | slept
I haven´t slept weel since two weeks ago |
slept | dormir |
| Tell | Tell | told
Remember what i told you yesterday |
told | decir |
| Pay | Pay | paid
She already paid me |
paid
She hasn´t paid me |
pagar |
De la lista de verbos irregulares que conocerás en este artículos, estos son los 11 verbos restantes.
| Verbo | Presente | Pasado simple | Pasado participio | Traducción |
| Write | Write | wrote
I wrote that letter |
written
It was written by me |
escribir |
| Choose | Choose | chose
You chose this situacion when you got in love. |
chosen | escoger |
| Sit | Sit | sat
I sat on the same chair last time |
sat | sentarse |
| Have/has | Have/has
She had to have her baby in the ambulance |
had | had | tener |
| Know | Know | knew
She knew all the answers |
known
i´m sure they always have known the true |
saber |
| Grow | Grow | grew
They grew up in the same town |
grown | crecer |
| Lose | Lose | lost
I have lost my glasses, i don’t know where they are |
lost | perder |
| Run | Run | ran | run
He´s never run a marathon |
correr |
| Come | Come | came
I was very shy when i came here for the first time |
come | venir |
| Teach | Teach | taught
The professor has taught in this institution for years |
taught | enseñar |
| Think | Think | Thought
I thought you were her sister |
Thought | pensar |
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