Irregular verbs do not follow a set pattern when used in the present tense. Learn about French irregular verbs in the present tense, with BBC Bitesize French. For students between the ages of 14 ...

Irregular verbs are the bane of any effort to learn English, but new research looking at how language evolves suggests frequent use keeps pesky irregular verbs like "take" from evolving into "taked." ...

English, like most Germanic languages, has many regular ("weak") verbs, like work, worked, worked (in standard dictionary format, listing present, past, and past participle), and a bewildering ...

The process beginned hundreds of years ago and bringed a huge change in our use of the language. Now researchers believe more of the irregular verbs that make English such a rich and varied ...

In the Old English of Beowulf, seven different rules competed for governance of English verbs, and only about 75% followed the “-ed” rule. As the centuries ticked by, the irregular verbs ...

They located 177 verbs that were irregular in Old English and 145 that were still irregular in Middle English; today, only 98 of the 177 verbs have not been "regularized.'" ...

There is one verb that is irregular and weak in the past tense, but strong in the the non-progressive participle: do, did, done. A few verbs are strong in the past tense, but weak regular in the ...

Of these irregular verbs, 145 remained irregular in Middle English and 98 are still irregular today. We study how the rate of regularization depends on the frequency of word usage.

The team identified 177 irregular verbs used in Old English and tracked their use over the centuries from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf to the latest Harry Potter novel.