What is Regular Verb? Definition and Regular Verbs List Past and Past Participle Form

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Regular Verbs

It is necessary to learn the second and third forms of verbs to use the past and perfect tense types, which are used quite frequently in English, correctly. Although it is necessary to memorize all irregular verbs, you do not need to memorize such regular verbs. You only need to know the rules of regular verb formation to arrange all regular verbs in English in the past tense or perfect tense.

How to Form a Regular Verb

If you aim to describe events or situations that happened in the past, you need to use the past tense or the perfect tense. However, since the verbs in these tenses have to be the second and third forms of the verb, you should learn the rules of arranging these verbs. Suffixes for regular verbs are -d, -ed, and -ied, but you cannot place these suffixes randomly. Here are the rules on how to place these attachments:

If the verb you want to change into its second form ends in a consonant, it takes the -ed suffix. For example:

added, afforded, alerted, annoyed, allowed, answered, arrested, attacked, avoided, blessed, boiled, booked, borrowed, bushed, called, collected, complained, concerned, connected, contained, decayed, delivered, depended, destroyed, embarrassed, ended, entertained, explained, failed, feared, floated, flowed, followed, hammered, hunted, interested, interrupted, joined, jumped, knocked, kneeled, laughed, lifted, melted, mixed, needed, obtained, offered, performed, printed, punished, questioned, reminded, rushed, sealed, shocked, touched, thanked, visited, waited, walked, warmed, whispered

If the letter at the end of your verb is the letter e, you should only add the suffix -d to your verb. For example:

advised, agreed, baked, balanced, breathed, behaved, calculated, cared, caused, continued, dances, decided, described, encouraged, faced, hoped, ignored, increased, interfered, joked, lied, liked, loved, managed, noted, observed, paused, prepared, reduced, refused, retired, scraped, saved, shaved, tasted, tired, used, wiped

If there is the letter y at the end of the verb and there is a consonant letter before this letter y, the letter y of this verb will be deleted. You should add -ied to this verb after the letter y is deleted. For example:

buried, carried, dried, emptied, fancied, fried, hurried, identified, married, relied, satisfied, terrified, tried, untidied, worried

You should look at the last three letters of the verb you want to edit. If the last letter of the verb is a consonant, the second last letter is a vowel and the last letter is a consonant, the next consonant is repeated and the suffix -ed is added to this verb. For example:

admitted, batted, clapped, chopped, dammed, dripped, fitted, flapped, grabbed, hopped, jammed, mugged, nodded, occurred, planed, plugged, robbed, lipped, stopped, tapped, whipped, zipped

Regular Verbs List, V1 V2 V3

	Present	Past	Past Participle
1	Accept	Accepted	Accepted
2	Act	Acted	Acted
3	Bake	Baked	Baked
4	Behave	Behaved	Behaved
5	Close	Closed	Closed
6	Compare	Compared	Compared
7	Compete	Competed	Competed
8	Die	Died	Died
9	Disagree	Disagreed	Disagreed
10	Disturb	Disturbed	Disturbed
11	Dress	Dressed	Dressed
12	Dry	Dried	Dried
13	Eliminate	Eliminated	Eliminated
14	End	Ended	Ended
15	Enjoy	Enjoyed	Enjoyed
16	Fix	Fixed	Fixed
17	Follow	Followed	Followed
18	Freeze	Freezed	Freezed
19	Fry	Fried	Fried
20	Greet	Greeted	Greeted

	Present	Past	Past Participle
21	Guess	Guessed	Guessed
22	Hunt	Hunted	Hunted
23	Identify	Identified	Identified
24	Imagine	Imagined	Imagined
25	Invite	Invited	Invited
26	Join	Joined	Joined
27	Jump	Jumped	Jumped
28	Knock	Knocked	Knocked
29	Love	Loved	Loved
30	Manage	Managed	Managed
31	Mark	Marked	Marked
32	Match	Matched	Matched
33	Name	Named	Named
34	Need	Needed	Needed
35	Open	Opened	Opened
36	Order	Ordered	Ordered
37	Organize	Organized	Organized
38	Pack	Packed	Packed
39	Paint	Painted	Painted
40	Pass	Passed	Passed