50 Most Common Verbs List
If you’re studying English as a second language, then it’s important to know the most common verbs. This list of 50 common verbs will help you improve your fluency and vocabulary. The verbs are listed in alphabetical order, so you can easily find the one you need. Practice using these verbs every day, and soon you’ll be speaking like a native!
Here’s a list of 50 of the most common verbs in alphabetical order:
- ask
- be
- become
- begin
- believe
- bring
- build
- buy
- call
- change
- come
- consider
- continue
- could
- create
- decide
- do
- expect
- find
- follow
- get
- give
- go
- have
- help
- hope
- know
- learn
- leave
- let
- like
- look
- make
- mean
- might
- move
- need
- offer
- open
- pass
- play
- put
- read
- run
- say
- see
- seem
- should
- start
- take
Most Common Verbs with Three Forms
Here are the 50 most common verbs with their three forms: the base form (infinitive), the past tense, and the past participle.
- be, was/were, been
- have, had, had
- do, did, done
- say, said, said
- go, went, gone
- get, got, got/gotten
- make, made, made
- see, saw, seen
- know, knew, known
- come, came, come
- think, thought, thought
- take, took, taken
- want, wanted, wanted
- give, gave, given
- use, used, used
- find, found, found
- tell, told, told
- ask, asked, asked
- work, worked, worked
- seem, seemed, seemed
- feel, felt, felt
- try, tried, tried
- become, became, become
- leave, left, left
- call, called, called
- provide, provided, provided
- bring, brought, brought
- begin, began, begun
- keep, kept, kept
- hold, held, held
- write, wrote, written
- stand, stood, stood
- hear, heard, heard
- let, let, let
- mean, meant, meant
- set, set, set
- meet, met, met
- run, ran, run
- pay, paid, paid
- sit, sat, sat
- speak, spoke, spoken
- lie, lay, lain
- lead, led, led
- read, read, read
- grow, grew, grown
- lose, lost, lost
- fall, fell, fallen
- send, sent, sent
- build, built, built
- understand, understood, understood
Please note that irregular verbs (verbs that don’t follow regular conjugation patterns) are included in this list, so some verbs may have irregular past tenses or past participles.
