Use Lingolia’s lists of irregular verbs to check which irregular verbs you need to know for a beginner, pre-Intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate or advanced language exam. However, we can categorise irregular verbs into three main types: verbs where all three forms are the same, verbs where the past simple and past participle are the same, and verbs where each form is different. Unfortunately, it is not possible to immediately recognise an irregular verb, which makes it difficult to learn them. There are around 200 irregular verbs used in everyday English. I rregular verbs form the simple past and past participle differently. Regular verbs form the simple past and past participle with -ed. English verbs have five main forms: infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle and present participle.
