Question

How many irregular verbs are there in the English language?

Answer 1

Hint: Irregular verbs do not form past indefinite tense or its past participle by adding “-d” or “-ed” to the base form. They are also known as strong verbs. They contrast with regular verbs which form the simple past tense or we can say that past indefinite tense and past participle by adding “-d” or “-ed”. For example :- arise , get , know etc. We will see some more examples below.

Complete answer:
Now let us discuss the examples of irregular verbs. These are as follows as :-

Base form	Past indefinite tense	Past participle
Come	Came	Has come
Get	Got	Has got or gotten
Make	Made	Has made
Know	Knew	Has known
Say	Said	Has said
See	Saw	Has seen
Think	Thought	Has thought
Take	Took	Has taken
To begin	Began	Has begun
To break	Broke	Has broken
To buy	Bought	Has bought
Hide	Hid	Hidden
Drive	Drove	Driven
Fly	Flew	Flown
Fight	Fought	Fought

There are lots of irregular verbs in the English language. Here are only some irregular verbs but the number of irregular verbs are many.

Note: A verb basically is a word that conveys an action or an occurrence we say, or a state of being. Verbs have tenses, like - Present tense : this indicates that an action is being carried out , Past tense : this indicates that an action has been done , Future tense : this indicates that an action will be done in the future.