Irregular Past Tense

Muchos verbos en inglés tienen un pasado irregular. Esta lección presenta algunos de los más comunes.

El verbo inglés be es muy irregular tanto en presente como en pasado. La siguiente tabla muestra el tiempo pasado del verbo be.

I was
he was
she was
it was
we were
you were
they were

Ejemplos

I was at the store.
He was tired.
They were happy.
We were at home.
Were they at the beach?
They were not at the beach.
The car was dirty.
The windows were dirty.

Muchos otros verbos ingleses muy comunes también tienen un pasado irregular. La siguiente tabla muestra el tiempo pasado de algunos verbos ingleses muy comunes. A diferencia del verbo be, sólo existe una forma de pasado para estos verbos.

Verb	Past Tense
bring	brought	traer
buy	bought	comprar
choose	chose	beber
do	did	hacer
drink	drank	beber
eat	ate	comer
find	found	encontrar
go	went	ir
get	got	1) obtener, recibir 2) ponerse, volverse
give	gave	dar
have	had	tener
hold	held	sostener
make	made	hacer, fabricar
run	ran	correr
sit	sat	sentar, sentarse
say	said	decir
stand	stood	estar de pie
take	took	tomar, llevar, aceptar
tell	told	decir, informar
think	thought	pensar

Ejemplos

We brought some cookies.	Trajimos algunas galletas.
She drank the coffee.	Ella bebió el café.
I found the keys.	Encontré las llaves.
The cat sat by the window.	El gato se sentó junto a la ventana.
I thought you said something.	Pensé que habías dicho algo.