English Irregular past participles.

Question

I decided to take a page out of Heidita's book and write a "question" on a topic that came up in another thread. What a great idea!!

I went on a Google search and found a great source for these. It does not speak of all the 240+ irregular participles that I have in my Webster's dictionary, but it does have a bunch of them.

When you go to the page, it speaks generally about English irregular verbs, then gives the list from A--E, scroll down a little more, and you will get the next bunch (F-R), then finally the last bunch. So there are three pages of these.

Do any of these bug the native English speakers? let me (and the community know.)

Check them out.

Irregular English Participles

That's my F Y S alright ! - ray76, Aug 31, 2017

a page out of Heidita's book ...huh?? - 006595c6, Sep 1, 2017

Answer 1

I'll post my comment from before again here Dani. I know many Americans, especially in the south, believe the past participle of "drink" is "drank" and "drunk" is only a state you can achieve through the over-consumption of alcohol.

My wife has a habit of using the past participle "seen" for the past tense. She can't understand why I cringe every time she does it. Or perhaps she can, and does it on purpose?

It's probably also worth noting that with the -ed / -t past participles, such as learned / learnt, dreamed / dreamt, spelled / spelt, learned / learnt etc. you will generally find the -ed endings used more in Am. Eng. and the -t in Brit. Eng.

Also, my only misuse of past participles (that I know of) is "earnt" which despite seeming to conform to the above pattern is not a proper English word. In spite of this, you will generally hear "earnt" used in the spoken form of the language where I live.

That's all that springs to mind, although I would add yet again that English must be a nightmare to learn for non-native speakers, especially when so many native speakers don't even use it correctly at times

Not bad from Fred Dag, I see that you gave us a drubbing again , one of these days ; one of these days ! If I live long enough . - ray76, Aug 31, 2017

Hee, hee, hee! - Daniela2041, Aug 31, 2017

Cheers Ray. I think you may have to worry about Bangladesh now too :) - jellonz, Aug 31, 2017

Answer 2

"Last night I dreamed a deadly dream, beyond the Isle of Sky

I saw a dead man win a fight, and I think that man was I"

Thank you for this very interesting thread Daniela, all I can add is that a few of

these one only sees a written form and a couple are rarely used but I love them all.

Answer 3

I remember that we "formally" learned these in 2nd grade, and Mrs. Blanchard made a game out of it. Back in the day, there were 50 kids in our classroom, with only 1 teacher and no assistants, and she ran the classroom like a well-oiled machine! We had grammar for about an hour a day until 7th grade.

They seem so "natural" to me that I don't even think about them.

But this is actually good news for my Spanish learning. Perhaps some of the things that drive me crazy about learning the language one day will just sound 'natural" too!

Well, one can dream....no?

It's fun to dream and to attain the dream. In Spanish there are only about 15?? or so irregular participles. But there is a lot of other complicated stuff for English speakers to learn. - Daniela2041, Aug 31, 2017

Answer 4

Some words I was taught, others I absorbed from my environment. Some are strangers to me: betted, forwent-forewent, lighted, stridden, throve and thriven.

To this day I have to look up the correct choice of:
lie, lay, lain (to recline)
lay, laid, laid (to place or put down)

Interesting question, thanks.