IRREGULAR VERBS

the 100 you meet most: base · past · past participle — grouped by the four patterns, not shuffled alphabetically

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: language · school · reference · classroom

Forms follow Merriam-Webster and Oxford; where American and British norms split, the American form is printed (get got gotten). Verbs whose current norm allows an equally standard regular form (dream, learn, light) are left out. Each row reads: base · past · past participle. Checked 2026-08-13.

WENT BELONGS TO A DIFFERENT VERB

The strangest row on this sheet — go went gone — is really two verbs glued together: went is the past tense of the Middle English wend (still alive in “to wend one’s way”), which go adopted as its own past centuries ago. And the paradigm of be is assembled from three distinct old roots: be and been from one, am and is from another, was and were from a third.

The rest is less frightening than it looks: of the 100 verbs here, 13 never change at all, 4 return to the base form in the participle, 42 share one word for past and participle — and only 41 truly keep three different forms.

On the sheet

Forms follow Merriam-Webster and Oxford; where American and British norms split, the American form is printed (get got gotten). Verbs whose current norm allows an equally standard regular form (dream, learn, light) are left out. Each row reads: base · past · past participle. Checked 2026-08-13.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 9 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

IRREGULAR VERBS

WENT BELONGS TO A DIFFERENT VERB

On the sheet

Printing

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