NOTE. Some of these also have weak forms, which are in parentheses
| Present Tense. | Past Tense. | Past Participle. |
| abide | abode | abode |
| arise | arose | arisen |
| awake | awoke (awaked) | awoke (awaked) |
| bear | bore | borne (active)born (passive) |
| begin | began | begun |
| behold | beheld | beheld |
| bid | bade, bid | bidden, bid |
| bind | bound | bound,[adj. bounden] |
| bite | bit | bitten, bit |
| blow | blew | blown |
| break | broke | broken |
| chide | chid | chidden, chid |
| choose | chose | chosen |
| cleave | clove, clave (cleft) | cloven (cleft) |
| climb | [clomb] climbed | climbed |
| cling | clung | clung |
| come | came | come |
| crow | crew (crowed) | (crowed) |
| dig | dug | dug |
| do | did | done |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| drink | drank | drunk, drank[adj. drunken] |
| drive | drove | driven |
| eat | ate, eat | eaten, eat |
| fall | fell | fallen |
| fight | fought | fought |
| find | found | found |
| fling | flung | flung |
| fly | flew | flown |
| forbear | forbore | forborne |
| forget | forgot | forgotten |
| forsake | forsook | forsaken |
| freeze | froze | frozen |
| get | got | got [gotten] |
| give | gave | given |
| go | went | gone |
| grind | ground | ground |
| grow | grew | grown |
| hang | hung (hanged) | hung (hanged) |
| hold | held | held |
| know | knew | known |
| lie | lay | lain |
| ride | rode | ridden |
| ring | rang | rung |
| run | ran | run |
| see | saw | seen |
| shake | shook | shaken |
| shear | shore (sheared) | shorn (sheared) |
| shine | shone | shone |
| shoot | shot | shot |
| shrink | shrank or shrunk | shrunk |
| shrive | shrove | shriven |
| sing | sang or sung | sung |
| sink | sank or sunk | sunk [adj. sunken] |
| sit | sat [sate] | sat |
| slay | slew | slain |
| slide | slid | slidden, slid |
| sling | slung | slung |
| slink | slunk | slunk |
| smite | smote | smitten |
| speak | spoke | spoken |
| spin | spun | spun |
| spring | sprang, sprung | sprung |
| stand | stood | stood |
| stave | stove (staved) | (staved) |
| steal | stole | stolen |
| stick | stuck | stuck |
| sting | stung | stung |
| stink | stunk, stank | stunk |
| stride | strode | stridden |
| strike | struck | struck, stricken |
| string | strung | strung |
| strive | strove | striven |
| swear | swore | sworn |
| swim | swam or swum | swum |
| swing | swung | swung |
| take | took | taken |
| tear | tore | torn |
| thrive | throve (thrived) | thriven (thrived) |
| throw | threw | thrown |
| tread | trod | trodden, trod |
| wear | wore | worn |
| weave | wove | woven |
| win | won | won |
| wind | wound | wound |
| wring | wrung | wrung |
| write | wrote | written |
Remarks on Certain Verb Forms.
246. Several of the perfect participles are seldom used except as adjectives: as, "his bounden duty," "the cloven hoof," "a drunken wretch," "a sunken snag." Stricken is used mostly of diseases; as, "stricken with paralysis."
The verb bear (to bring forth) is peculiar in having one participle (borne) for the active, and another (born) for the passive. When it means to carry or to endure, borne is also a passive.
The form clomb is not used in prose, but is much used in vulgar English, and sometimes occurs in poetry; as,—
Thou hast clomb aloft.—Wordsworth
Or pine grove whither woodman never clomb.—Coleridge