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Irregular Verbs Song

36 Verbs Grouped by Sound

Learn 36 English irregular verbs in one song. Level B1 (intermediate), for teenagers and adults learning English.

Base formPast simplePast participle36 verbs in 6 sound families

Chapters

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:10Chorus: base, past, participle
  3. 0:28The -OUGHT family: buy, bring, think, teach, catch, fight
  4. 0:47Chorus
  5. 1:05The -T family: keep, sleep, feel, leave, meet, send, spend
  6. 1:24I → A → U: begin, drink, sing, swim, ring, sink
  7. 1:42Chorus
  8. 2:00The -EN family: break, speak, choose, freeze, write, drive, eat, give
  9. 2:20Same, same, same: cut, put, shut, let, cost, hit
  10. 2:32Final chorus
  11. 2:50Outro: go, do, see

Also on YouTube. The singing voice is AI-generated; Remi is an animated character.

Lyrics · click a line to play it

Intro

0:01: play Intro

Irregular verbs! Are you ready? One, two, three!

Chorus

0:10: play Chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

One, two, three, now you've got the key,

Irregular verbs are as easy as can be!

Verse 1 · The -OUGHT family

0:28: play Verse 1 · The -OUGHT family

Past and participle sound the same: -ought / -aught

Buy, bought, bought, bring, brought, brought,

Think, thought, thought, teach, taught, taught,

Catch, caught, caught, fight, fought, fought,

Listen to the ending, they all sound like "ought"!

I bought a phone yesterday, that's the past, (Past simple)

I have bought three this year, participle at last! (Past participle)

Chorus

0:46: play Chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

One, two, three, now you've got the key,

Irregular verbs are as easy as can be!

Verse 2 · The -T family

1:05: play Verse 2 · The -T family

Past = participle, and it ends in -t

Keep, kept, kept, sleep, slept, slept,

Feel, felt, felt, leave, left, left,

Meet, met, met, send, sent, sent,

Spend, spent, spent, where did all my money go? It went!

I slept for ten hours last night, that's the past, (Past simple)

I have never slept so well, participle at last! (Past participle)

Verse 3 · I → A → U

1:24: play Verse 3 · I → A → U

Only the vowel changes: i → a → u

Begin, began, begun, drink, drank, drunk,

Sing, sang, sung, swim, swam, swum,

Ring, rang, rung, sink, sank, sunk,

I, then A, then U, and the fun has just begun!

Chorus

1:42: play Chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

One, two, three, now you've got the key,

Irregular verbs are as easy as can be!

Verse 4 · The -EN family

1:59: play Verse 4 · The -EN family

The participle ends in -en

Break, broke, broken, speak, spoke, spoken,

Choose, chose, chosen, freeze, froze, frozen,

Write, wrote, written, drive, drove, driven,

Eat, ate, eaten, give, gave, given!

I wrote a song on Monday, that's the past, (Past simple)

I have written ten this year, participle at last! (Past participle)

Bridge · Same · same · same

2:20: play Bridge · Same · same · same

Nothing changes. The easy bit!

Cut, cut, cut, put, put, put,

Shut, shut, shut, let, let, let,

Cost, cost, cost, hit, hit, hit,

Same, same, same, that's the easy bit!

Final chorus

2:31: play Final chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

One, two, three, now you've got the key,

Irregular verbs are as easy as can be!

Outro · The rebels

2:50: play Outro · The rebels

No pattern here: learn them by heart

Go, went, gone, do, did, done,

See, saw, seen, and now the song is done!

The verbs

All 36 verbs, by sound

The song groups the verbs by how they sound, so you learn whole families at once. The underlined part is the sound they share.

The -OUGHT family

Past and participle sound the same: -ought / -aught

A · B · B
The -OUGHT family: base form, past simple and past participle
BasePastParticiple
buyboughtbought
bringbroughtbrought
thinkthoughtthought
teachtaughttaught
catchcaughtcaught
fightfoughtfought

The -T family

Past = participle, and it ends in -t

A · B · B
The -T family: base form, past simple and past participle
BasePastParticiple
keepkeptkept
sleepsleptslept
feelfeltfelt
leaveleftleft
meetmetmet
sendsentsent
spendspentspent

I → A → U

Only the vowel changes: i → a → u

A · B · C
I → A → U: base form, past simple and past participle
BasePastParticiple
beginbeganbegun
drinkdrankdrunk
singsangsung
swimswamswum
ringrangrung
sinksanksunk

The -EN family

The participle ends in -en

A · B · C
The -EN family: base form, past simple and past participle
BasePastParticiple
breakbrokebroken
speakspokespoken
choosechosechosen
freezefrozefrozen
writewrotewritten
drivedrovedriven
eatateeaten
givegavegiven

Same · same · same

Nothing changes. The easy bit!

A · A · A
Same · same · same: base form, past simple and past participle
BasePastParticiple
cutcutcut
putputput
shutshutshut
letletlet
costcostcost
hithithit

The rebels

No pattern here: learn them by heart

A · B · C
The rebels: base form, past simple and past participle
BasePastParticiple
gowentgone
dodiddone
seesawseen
See all 72 irregular verbs, searchable and printable

Practice

Test yourself

Write the past simple and the past participle. Then check.

teach
leave
sing
choose
cut
go
More practice with this songHear Remi sing a line, type the missing words, then check the answers and explanations.Irregular Verbs exercises

Your turn

Which verb was new for you?

Say it in a sentence, like: "I have never swum in the sea."

Answer in the YouTube comments

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