irregular verb

Cultural  

1. A verb in which the past tense is not formed by adding the usual -ed ending. Examples of irregular verbs are sing (past tense sang); feel (felt); and go (went). (Compare regular verb.)

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Example Sentences

“I’ve been surprised that not a ton of guys have really learned it outside of the baseball talk and basic conversation,” said Dozier, now a 32-year-old second baseman for the Washington Nationals, who is nearly fluent in Spanish even if he still struggles with irregular verb tenses.

From Washington Post

For example, languages lose irregular verb conjugations or other word forms that are hard to remember.

From Science Magazine

But other people’s mental grammars see “greenlight” as a form of the verb “to light”, an existing irregular verb with the past tense “lit”; hence “greenlit”.

From Economist

Most incredibly, and movingly, the whole crowd, including English fans who had never handled a French irregular verb in their lives, roared out the Marseillaise at full throttle.

From The Guardian

“He was Velasco, Valasky, Valasca, Valesques,” Ms. Cumming writes, “like the conjugations of an irregular verb.”

From New York Times