50 Most Common Verbs List

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:

1. ask
2. be
3. become
4. begin
5. believe
6. bring
7. build
8. buy
9. call
10. change
11. come
12. consider
13. continue
14. could
15. create
16. decide
17. do
18. expect
19. find
20. follow
21. get
22. give
23. go
24. have
25. help
26. hope
27. know
28. learn
29. leave
30. let
31. like
32. look
33. make
34. mean
35. might
36. move
37. need
38. offer
39. open
40. pass
41. play
42. put
43. read
44. run
45. say
46. see
47. seem
48. should
49. start
50. 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.

1. be, was/were, been
2. have, had, had
3. do, did, done
4. say, said, said
5. go, went, gone
6. get, got, got/gotten
7. make, made, made
8. see, saw, seen
9. know, knew, known
10. come, came, come
11. think, thought, thought
12. take, took, taken
13. want, wanted, wanted
14. give, gave, given
15. use, used, used
16. find, found, found
17. tell, told, told
18. ask, asked, asked
19. work, worked, worked
20. seem, seemed, seemed
21. feel, felt, felt
22. try, tried, tried
23. become, became, become
24. leave, left, left
25. call, called, called
26. provide, provided, provided
27. bring, brought, brought
28. begin, began, begun
29. keep, kept, kept
30. hold, held, held
31. write, wrote, written
32. stand, stood, stood
33. hear, heard, heard
34. let, let, let
35. mean, meant, meant
36. set, set, set
37. meet, met, met
38. run, ran, run
39. pay, paid, paid
40. sit, sat, sat
41. speak, spoke, spoken
42. lie, lay, lain
43. lead, led, led
44. read, read, read
45. grow, grew, grown
46. lose, lost, lost
47. fall, fell, fallen
48. send, sent, sent
49. build, built, built
50. 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.