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- 1. a verb that does not follow the normal pattern of inflection: "there are some differences in irregular verbs between British and American English"
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Verbs with less common conjugations in English
The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use – and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle. The other inflected parts of the verb – the third person singular present indicative in -[e]s, and the present participle and gerund form in -ing – are formed regu... Wikipedia