Tabla de verbos irregulares en inglés: los 63 más usados con traducción

Un verbo es irregular cuando su pasado simple y su participio no se forman añadiendo -ed. Son pocos, unos doscientos, pero están entre los más usados del idioma, así que conviene dominarlos cuanto antes.

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Para qué sirve cada columna

• Infinitivo (base form): I write every day.
• Pasado simple (past simple): I wrote a letter yesterday.
• Participio (past participle), con los tiempos perfectos y la pasiva: I have written three emails. / The book was written in 1950.

Los 63 verbos irregulares más frecuentes

Infinitivo	Pasado simple	Participio	Traducción
be	was / were	been	ser, estar
become	became	become	llegar a ser, volverse
begin	began	begun	empezar
break	broke	broken	romper
bring	brought	brought	traer
build	built	built	construir
buy	bought	bought	comprar
catch	caught	caught	atrapar
choose	chose	chosen	elegir
come	came	come	venir
cost	cost	cost	costar
cut	cut	cut	cortar
do	did	done	hacer
draw	drew	drawn	dibujar
drink	drank	drunk	beber
drive	drove	driven	manejar, conducir
eat	ate	eaten	comer
fall	fell	fallen	caer
feel	felt	felt	sentir
find	found	found	encontrar
fly	flew	flown	volar
forget	forgot	forgotten	olvidar
get	got	got (EE. UU.: gotten)	obtener, conseguir
give	gave	given	dar
go	went	gone	ir
grow	grew	grown	crecer
have	had	had	tener, haber
hear	heard	heard	oír
hold	held	held	sostener
keep	kept	kept	guardar, mantener
know	knew	known	saber, conocer
leave	left	left	irse, dejar
lend	lent	lent	prestar
let	let	let	permitir, dejar
lose	lost	lost	perder
make	made	made	hacer, fabricar
meet	met	met	conocer, reunirse
pay	paid	paid	pagar
put	put	put	poner
read	read	read	leer
ride	rode	ridden	montar
run	ran	run	correr
say	said	said	decir
see	saw	seen	ver
sell	sold	sold	vender
send	sent	sent	enviar
sing	sang	sung	cantar
sit	sat	sat	sentarse
sleep	slept	slept	dormir
speak	spoke	spoken	hablar
spend	spent	spent	gastar, pasar (tiempo)
stand	stood	stood	estar de pie
swim	swam	swum	nadar
take	took	taken	tomar, llevar
teach	taught	taught	enseñar
tell	told	told	contar, decir
think	thought	thought	pensar
throw	threw	thrown	lanzar
understand	understood	understood	entender
wake	woke	woken	despertar(se)
wear	wore	worn	llevar puesto
win	won	won	ganar
write	wrote	written	escribir

Truco: apréndelos por grupos

Memorizar la lista de la A a la Z cuesta mucho más que agrupar los verbos que cambian igual:

Patrón	Ejemplos
Las tres formas iguales (A-A-A)	cut-cut-cut, put-put-put, let-let-let, cost-cost-cost
Pasado y participio iguales (A-B-B)	buy-bought-bought, teach-taught-taught, sleep-slept-slept
Vocal i-a-u	begin-began-begun, drink-drank-drunk, sing-sang-sung, swim-swam-swum
Participio en -en / -n	speak-spoke-spoken, take-took-taken, write-wrote-written, know-knew-known
Infinitivo y participio iguales (A-B-A)	come-came-come, run-ran-run, become-became-become

Un caso curioso: read se escribe igual en las tres formas, pero el pasado y el participio se pronuncian «red».

Ejercicios

Completa con la forma correcta del verbo.

1. Yesterday I ___ (buy) a new phone.
2. Have you ever ___ (eat) sushi?
3. She ___ (tell) me the truth.
4. They have ___ (go) to Guadalajara.
5. The window was ___ (break) by the wind.
6. We ___ (meet) at university in 2015.

Soluciones

1. bought · 2. eaten · 3. told · 4. gone · 5. broken · 6. met

Sigue con: for y since con el present perfect · condicionales.