With regular verbs you make the past participle by adding '-ed' behind the verb.
As with the past simple, the -y sometimes changes to an -ie and the last consonant is sometimes doubled.
Examples:
Present tense |
Past tense |
past participle |
to play | played | played |
to live | lived | lived |
to own | owned | owned |
to work | worked | worked |
to cry | cried | cried |
to prefer | preferred | preferred |
The irregular verbs have their own form that you have to memorize.
Examples:
Present tense |
Past tense |
past participle |
to be | was/were | been |
to beat | beat | beaten |
to become | became | become |
to begin | began | begun |
to bend | bent | bent |
to bet | bet | bet |
to bind | bound | bound |
to bite | bit | bitten |
to blow | blew | blown |
to break | broke | broken |
to bring | brought | brought |
to build | built | built |
to buy | bought | bought |
to burn | burnt | burnt |
to burst | burst | burst |
to catch | caught | caught |
to choose | chose | chosen |
to come | came | come |
to cost | cost | cost |
to creep | crept | crept |
to cut | cut | cut |
to deal | dealt | dealt |
to dig | dug | dug |
to do | did | done |
to draw | drew | drawn |
to dream | dreamt | dreamt |
to drink | drank | drunk |
to drive | drove | driven |
to eat | ate | eaten |
to fall | fell | fallen |
to feed | fed | fed |
to feel | felt | felt |
to fight | fought | fought |
to find | found | found |
to flee | fled | fled |
to fly | flew | flown |
to forbid | forbade | forbidden |
to forget | forgot | forgotten |
to get | got | got |
to give | gave | given |
to go | went | gone |
to grow | grew | given |
to hang | hung | hung |
to have | had | had |
to hear | heard | heard |
to hide | hid | hidden |
to hit | hit | hit |
to hold | held | held |
to hurt | hurt | hurt |
to keep | kept | kept |
to know | knew | known |
to lay | laid | laid |
to lead | led | led |
to leave | left | left |
to lend | lent | lent |
to let | let | let |
to lie | lay | lay |
to lose | lost | lost |
to make | made | made |
to mean | meant | meant |
to meet | met | met |
to pay | paid | paid |
to put | put | put |
to read | read | read |
to ride | rode | ridden |
to ring | rang | rung |
to rise | rose | risen |
to run | ran | run |
to say | said | said |
to see | saw | seen |
to seek | sought | sought |
to sell | sold | sold |
to send | sent | sent |
to set | set | set |
to shake | shook | shaken |
to shine | shone | shone |
to shoot | shot | shot |
to show | showed | shown |
to shut | shut | shut |
to sing | sang | sung |
to sink | sank | sunk |
to sit | sat | sat |
to sleep | slept | slept |
to smell | smelt | smelt |
to speak | spoke | spoken |
to spend | spent | spent |
to spoil | spoilt | spoilt |
to spread | spread | spread |
to stand | stood | stood |
to steal | stole | stolen |
to stink | stank | stunk |
to strike | struck | struck |
to swear | swore | sworn |
to sweep | swept | swept |
to swim | swam | swum |
to take | took | taken |
to teach | taught | taught |
to tear | tore | torn |
to tell | told | told |
to think | thought | thought |
to throw | threw | thrown |
to understand | understood | understood |
to wake | woke | woken |
to wear | wore | worn |
to win | won | won |
to write | wrote | written |
On the internet you can find various lists of irregular verbs.