불규칙동사

불규칙동사

영어에서 불규칙동사는 다른 규칙동사들과 다르게 과거형, 과거분사형이 규칙적으로 변화하지 않는 동사이다. 

 

배경

대부분의 동사들은 과거, 과거분사형이 변칙적으로 변하는데 불규칙동사는 이 규칙을 따르지 않고 자체적으로 변화하기 때문에 수많은 사람들이 이해하는데 어려움을 겪는다. 불규칙동사는 한꺼번에 외우는건 추천하지 않고, 그때 그때 보면서 문장이나 예문등에 적용하여 익히는 것을 추천한다.

 

불규칙동사 종류

I. 원형, 과거형, 과거분사형이 모두 다른 경우 (A - B - C형)

	원형 (A) Base form	과거형 (B) Past form	과거분사형 (C) Past participle form
I	be	was / were	been
II	begin	began	begun
III	do	did	done
IV	go	went	gone
V	see	saw	seen
VI	buy	bought	bought
VII	eat	ate	eaten
VIII	take	took	taken
IX	draw	drew	drawn
X	drive	drove	driven
XI	fly	flew	flown
XII	break	broke	broken
XIII	speak	spoke	spoken
XIV	ring	rang	rung
XV	show	showed	shown
XVI	rise	rose	risen
XVII	fall	fell	fallen
XVIII	write	wrote	written

 

II. 원형, 과거분사형이 같은 경우 (A - B - A형)

	원형 (A) Base form	과거형 (B) Past form	과거분사 (A) Past participle form
I	become	became	become
II	come	came	come
III	run	ran	run

 

III. 과거형, 과거분사형이 같은 경우 (A - B - B형)

	원형 (A) Base form	과거형 (B) Past form	과거분사형 (B) Past participle form
I	bend	bent	bent
II	build	built	built
III	bring	brought	brought
IV	catch	caught	caught
V	find	found	found
VI	fight	fought	fought
VII	meet	met	met
VIII	hang	hung	hung
IX	have	had	had
X	leave	left	left
XI	lead	led	led
XII	light	light	light
XIII	lose	lost	lost
XIV	sit	sat	sat
XV	say	said	said
XVI	sleep	slept	slept
XVII	sell	sold	sold
XVIII	stand	stood	stood
XIX	think	thought	thought
XX	teach	taught	taught
XXI	understand	understood	understood

 

IV. 원형, 과거형, 과거분사형이 모두 같은 경우 (A - A - A형)

	원형 (A) Base form	과거형 (A) Past form	과거분사형 (A) Past participle form
I	cost	cost	cost
II	cut	cut	cut
III	hit	hit	hit
IV	hurt	hurt	hurt
V	let	let	let
VI	put	put	put
VII	shut	shut	shut
VIII	spread	spread	spread
IX	quit	quit	quit