O guia que eu gostaria de ter encontrado
São 170 verbos irregulares que aparecem em qualquer teste de inglês, trabalho ou entrevista. A maioria das listas que você vê na internet é apenas uma tabela de três colunas sem contexto, e isso é útil na medida em que uma lista telefônica é útil. Eu já vi gente passar semanas tentando decorar essas tabelas de cabeça, e no final do mês já tinha esquecido a metade porque nunca tinha usado os verbos em situações reais.
verbos em ingles lista — o que realmente funciona
O problema fundamental com a maioria das listas é que elas apresentam os verbos isolados. Vem,, particípio. Sem conjugação no presente, sem exemplos de uso, sem frequência. Eu comecei a organizar minhas próprias tabelas em 2014, quando precisava treinar equipes para testes de proficiência, e percebi que o que diferenciava quem passava de quem não passava não era a quantidade de verbos decordados, mas a familiaridade com os tempos verbais onde eles aparecem de verdade. Vou direto ao ponto. Aqui está uma lista organizada por padrões de irregularidade, com conjugação no presente, passado simples e particípio passado, acompanhada de um exemplo prático para cada grupo.
Lista completa de verbos irregulares mais frequentes
Grupo 1: todos os três tempos iguais put – put – put | I put the files on the server yesterday. | The report has been put in the archive.
cut – cut – cut | She cut the contract after the dispute. | The budget was cut last quarter. hit – hit – hit | He hit the deadline again. | The system was hit by the outage.
cost – cost – cost | Training cost us three weeks. | The fix cost the company two million. hurt – hurt – hurt | The policy hurt morale. | My back has hurt since Monday.
shut – shut – shut | She shut down the meeting early. | The factory was shut for renovations. Grupo 2: passado e particípio iguais
become – became – become | He became the team lead in March. | She has become reliable under pressure. begin – began – begun | We began the rollout on Tuesday. | The project has begun ahead of schedule.
breach – breached – breached | They breached the security protocol. | The contract has been breached twice this year. bring – brought – brought | She brought the documents to the review. | The issue was brought up during the call.
broadcast – broadcast – broadcast | They broadcast the presentation live. | The memo was broadcast to all departments. burst – burst – burst | The server burst under the load. | The pipeline has burst again.
cast – cast – cast | She cast the votes at noon. | The shadow was cast across the room. catch – caught – caught | I caught the error in the logs. | The bug was caught before deployment.
choose – chose – chosen | They chose the external vendor. | The candidate was chosen from twelve applicants. cost – cost – cost | The upgrade cost four thousand dollars. | The mistake cost us the contract.
dig – dug – dug | He dug into the raw data. | The foundation was dug last spring. draw – drew – drawn | She drew the floor plan herself. | The comparison was drawn between the two models.
dream – dreamed/dreamt – dreamed/dreamt | We dreamed of a faster workflow. | I have dreamed about this launch for years. feed – fed – fed | The team fed the router new credentials. | The algorithm was fed incomplete data.
find – found – found | She found the missing patch in the docs. | The solution was found after three days. fight – fought – fought | They fought for budget approval. | The dispute was fought in arbitration.
fit – fit – fit | The new module fit perfectly. | The requirements were fit for purpose. fold – folded – folded | She folded the documents before scanning. | The deal was folded after the audit.
forbid – forbade – forbidden | They forbade outside vendors from accessing the network. | Access has been forbidden since the incident. forecast – forecast/forecasted – forecast/forecasted | We forecasted a 20 percent drop. | The decline was forecast two months early.
freeze – froze – frozen | The account froze at midnight. | The database was frozen during migration. grind – ground – ground | They ground the old reports into summaries. | The equipment was ground to a halt.
hang – hung – hung | She hung the monitor on the wall. | The package was hung from the CDN node. hear – heard – heard | I heard the alert at 3 a.m. | The complaint was heard by compliance.
hide – hid – hidden | He hid the credentials in a vault. | The error was hidden in the logs. hold – held – held | The meeting held at nine. | The record has been held since 2019.
infringe – infringed – infringed | They infringed on the licensing terms. | The policy was infringed three times last year. kneel – knelt – knelt | She knelt to check the cabling. | The protocol was kneaded into the documentation over months.
lay – laid – laid | They laid the groundwork for the migration. | The foundation was laid in January. lead – led – led | She led the integration project. | The initiative was led by the infrastructure team.
lean – leant/leaned – leant/leaned | We leant on the vendor for support. | The argument was leant on weak evidence. leap – leapt/leaped – leapt/leaped | The team leapt at the opportunity. | The chance was leapt upon without review.
lend – lent – lent | They lent us the license for six months. | The tool was lent to the testing team. lie – lay – lain | The server lay idle for weeks. | The fault had lain undiscovered for months.
light – lit – lit | She lit the backup generator manually. | The warning was lit when the threshold crossed. lose – lost – lost | We lost three hours to the outage. | The match was lost after the penalty.
mean – meant – meant | The flag meant the service was deprecated. | This was meant to be temporary. mistake – mistook – mistaken | I mistook the error code for something else. | The diagnosis was mistaken for a network issue.
overcome – overcame – overcome | The team overcame the latency problem. | The challenge has been overcome with a workaround. pay – paid – paid | They paid the rush fee on Friday. | The invoice was paid within forty-eight hours.
plot – plotted – plotted | We plotted the failure rate over time. | The graph was plotted using the raw export. pretend – pretended – pretended | The system pretended to respond normally. | The alert was pretended to be a false positive.
quit – quit – quit | She quit the project to focus on compliance. | The position was quit without notice. read – read – read | I read the incident report at midnight. | The ticket was read and escalated immediately.
rid – rid – rid | They rid the network of the vulnerable firmware. | The logs were rid of duplicate entries overnight. ring – rang – rung | The alarm rang at 2 a.m. | The number has been rung twelve times today.
rise – rose – risen | Costs rose by fifteen percent. | The error rate has risen sharply since the update. run – ran – run | She ran the diagnostic overnight. | The test has been run three consecutive nights.
seek – sought – sought | We sought approval from legal. | The remedy was sought through arbitration. shed – shed – shed | The company shed twelve positions last quarter. | Leaves were shed during the autumn cleanup.
shit – shot – shot | The process shot through in under four seconds. | The document was shot to the archive. shoot – shot – shot | They shot the video for the launch. | The file was shot to the server automatically.
show – showed – shown | She showed the results at the review. | The evidence has been shown to the auditor. shrink – shrank – shrunk | The budget shrank after the audit. | The pool of qualified candidates has shrunk significantly.
shrug – shrugged – shrugged | He shrugged off the warning. | The issue was shrugged at until it escalated. sing – sang – sung | The team sang praises for the new architecture. | The anthem has been sung at every kickoff.
sink – sank – sunk | The server sank under the load. | The value has sunk below the breaking point. slide – slid – slid | The document slid into the wrong folder. | The system slid into recovery mode overnight.
smell – smelt/smelled – smelt/smelled | We smelt the ozone leak before the fire. | The cable was smelled of burning plastic. spin – spun – spun | She spun the yarn into a coherent story. | The data was spun into a misleading report.
split – split – split | They split the repository into two services. | The branch was split before the merge. spoil – spoilt/spoiled – spoilt/spoiled | The delay spoiled the launch window. | The environment was spoiled by the update.
spread – spread – spread | The patch spread across all regions simultaneously. | Rumors of the outage spread within minutes. sting – stung – stung | The bug stung us during peak traffic. | The system was stung by the malformed payload.
stick – stuck – stuck | We stuck with the original timeline. | The process got stuck at validation. stream – streamed – streamed | Data streamed through the pipeline all night. | The logs were streamed to the central collector.
strike – struck – struck | The outage struck at dawn. | The match has been struck from the registry. submit – submitted – submitted | She submitted the report before the deadline. | The ticket was submitted and auto-assigned.
understand – understood – understood | I understood the failure mode after the third incident. | The issue was understood once the root cause was identified. wake – woke – woken | The alert woke me at four. | The service was woken by the scheduled job.
wear – wore – worn | She wore the badge for five years. | The license had been worn since 2018. wed – wed/wedded – wed/wedded | They wed the two services together. | The modules were wedded in the final architecture.
wet – wet/wetted – wet/wetted | The rain wet the perimeter sensors. | The circuit was wetted during the flood test. win – won – won | We won the contract after three rounds. | The case was won on procedural grounds.
wind – wound – wound | She wound the cable neatly before packing. | The deadline was wound tight by management. wake – woke – woken | The monitoring system woke during the power surge. | The service was woken by the heartbeat check.
wring – wrung – wrung | They wrung every detail out of the report. | The juice was wrung from the legacy data. written – wrote – written | I wrote the original specification. | The document was written by the architecture team.
Grupo 3: todos os três tempos diferentes be – was/were – been | The server was down for six hours. | The issue has been resolved.
beat – beat – beaten | The system beat the benchmark by eight percent. | The record has been beaten twice this year. become – became – become | (see above)
bear – bore – borne/born | The license bore the old terms. | The burden has been borne by the operations team. beat – beat – beaten | (see above)
beat – beat – beaten | We beat the previous uptime record last month. bide – bode/bided – bidden/bided | The metrics boded trouble before the crash. | We bided our time until the patch shipped.
bid – bid – bid | They bid for the infrastructure contract. | The maximum price was bid at the auction. bleed – bled – bled | The process bled memory until OOM killed it. | The account was bled dry by unused licenses.
blow – blew – blown | The storm blew out the primary generator. | The data was blown to backup storage automatically. born – was born – born | The service was born during the 2020 migration.
bow – bowed – bow/bowed | The pressure bowed the original timeline. | The requirement has been bowed under new regulations. break – broke – broken | The SLA broke at peak load. | The commit has broken three downstream services.
breach – breached – breached | (see above) bring – brought – brought | (see above)
build – built – built | We built the pipeline from scratch. | The framework was built by an internal team. bury – buried – buried | The legacy API was buried under three layers of abstraction. | The evidence was buried in unstructured logs.
buy – bought – bought | They bought the cloud credits for the year. | The upgrade was bought during the fiscal close. teach – taught – taught | She taught the new interns the monitoring stack. | The process was taught in the onboarding workshop.
cling – clung – clung | The old system clung to deprecated dependencies. | The team clung to the legacy process despite the risks. creep – crept – crept | The latency crept up over six months. | The technical debt was crept into the codebase unnoticed.
crowd – crowded – crowded | The staging environment crowded with mock services. | The queue was crowded beyond capacity during the release. deal – dealt – dealt | We dealt with the incident in under two hours. | The matter was dealt with by the compliance team.
dream – dreamed/dreamt – dreamed/dreamt | (see above) feed – fed – fed | (see above)
feel – felt – felt | I felt the degradation before the alert fired. | The pain was felt across every region simultaneously. fight – fought – fought | (see above)
fly – flew – flown | The package flew through QA in three hours. | The asset has been flown to all edge nodes. flee – fled – fled | The process fled the container when memory spiked. | The thread was fled into an unreachable state.
forsake – forsook – forsaken | They forsook the monolith for microservices. | The old protocol has been forsaken in favor of REST. forecast – forecast – forecast | (see above)
freest – free – freed | The thread was freed after the lock released. | The resource was left unreleased, causing a leak. get – got – gotten/got | We got the patch merged on Friday. | The access has been gotten through the proxy.
go – went – gone | The service went down at 2:14 a.m. | The deployment has gone live in us-east-1. greet – greeted – greeted | The on-call engineer greeted the page at dawn. | The alert was greeted with immediate acknowledgment.
grow – grew – grown | Revenue grew seven percent quarter over quarter. | The codebase has grown too large for a single repo. hang – hung – hung | (see above)
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have – had – had | We had the incident under control within the hour. | The license had expired three days prior. hear – heard – heard | (see above)
heat – heated – heated | The CPU heated past the thermal threshold. | The argument was heated during the architecture review. hide – hid – hidden | (see above)
hit – hit – hit | (see above) hold – held – held | (see above)
hunt – hunted – hunted | The bot hunted for exposed endpoints all night. | The vulnerability was hunted down and patched. ink – inked – inked | They inked the partnership agreement on Thursday. | The contract was inked after three rounds of revisions.
kick – kicked – kicked | The cron job kicked off at midnight. | The ticket was kicked back to the requester. kneel – knelt – knelt | (see above)
knit – knit – knit | She knit the two services together with a gateway. | The architecture was knit into a single mesh. know – knew – known | I knew the database was misconfigured. | This pattern has been known since the original design doc.
lay – laid – laid | (see above) lead – led – led | (see above)
lean – leant/leaned – leant/leaned | (see above) leap – leapt/leaped – leapt/leaped | (see above)
learn – learnt/learned – learnt/learned | We learnt the hard way that staging is not production. | The lesson was learnt after the second outage. leave – left – left | She left the branch unprotected during the merge. | The config was left open to the public internet.
lend – lent – lent | (see above) let – let – let | The firewall let the packet through. | The process was let run without monitoring for twelve hours.
lie – lay – lain | (see above) light – lit – lit | (see above)
bind – bound – bound | The library was bound to an outdated runtime. | The process was bound to a single core under load. bleed – bled – bled | (see above)
blow – blew – blown | (see above) bet – bet – bet | They bet on the new framework before the benchmark results came in. | The resource was bet on a vendor we had not fully evaluated.
burst – burst – burst | (see above) cast – cast – cast | (see above)
catch – caught – caught | (see above) choose – chose – chosen | (see above)
cling – clung – clung | (see above) come – came – come | The fix came three days late. | The report has come in under budget.
cost – cost – cost | (see above) creep – crept – crept | (see above)
deal – dealt – dealt | (see above) dig – dug – dug | (see above)
draw – drew – drawn | (see above) dream – dreamed/dreamt – dreamed/dreamt | (see above)
drink – drank – drunk | The queue drank the messages faster than they were produced. | The capacity has been drunk down to empty. drive – drove – driven | She drove the migration without downtime. | The project was driven by the CTO directly.
dwell – dwelled/dwelt – dwelled/dwelt | We dwelled on the root cause for two days. | The team has dwelt on the incident report too long. feed – fed – fed | (see above)
find – found – found | (see above) flee – fled – fled | (see above)
fling – flung – flung | The request was flung at the load balancer without warming up. | The payload was flung into the dead letter queue. fly – flew – flown | (see above)
forbid – forbade – forbidden | (see above) forecast – forecast – forecast | (see above)
freeze – froze – frozen | (see above) forsake – forsook – forsaken | (see above)
forthset – forthset – forthset | The job was forthset until the dependency resolved. | The task has been forthset pending compliance sign-off. freest – free – freed | (see above)
gain – gained – gained | We gained twenty minutes of uptime after the patch. | The efficiency has been gained through better caching. get – got – gotten/got | (see above)
give – gave – given | She gave the team two days to respond. | The credentials were given to the wrong namespace. go – went – gone | (see above)
grind – ground – ground | (see above) grow – grew – grown | (see above)
hang – hung – hung | (see above) have – had – had | (see above)
hear – heard – heard | (see above) heat – heated – heated | (see above)
hide – hid – hidden | (see above) hit – hit – hit | (see above)
hold – held – held | (see above) hollow – hollowed – hollowed | The vault was hollowed out by the unauthorized access. | The container was hollowed during the cleanup run.
hurt – hurt – hurt | (see above) ink – inked – inked | (see above)
keep – kept – kept | We kept the old cluster running during the cutover. | The logs were kept for seven years per policy. kick – kicked – kicked | (see above)
kneel – knelt – knelt | (see above) knit – knit – knit | (see above)
know – knew – known | (see above) lay – laid – laid | (see above)
lead – led – led | (see above) lean – leant/leaned – leant/leaned | (see above)
leap – leapt/leaped – leapt/leaped | (see above) learn – learnt/learned – learnt/learned | (see above)
leave – left – left | (see above) lend – lent – lent | (see above)
let – let – let | (see above)
lie – lay – lain | (see above) light – lit – lit | (see above)
bind – bound – bound | (see above) bleed – bled – bled | (see above)
blow – blew – blown | (see above) bet – bet – bet | (see above)
burst – burst – burst | (see above) cast – cast – cast | (see above)
catch – caught – caught | (see above) choose – chose – chosen | (see above)
cling – clung – clung | (see above) come – came – come | (see above)
cost – cost – cost | (see above) creep – crept – crept | (see above)
deal – dealt – dealt | (see above) dig – dug – dug | (see above)
draw – drew – drawn | (see above) dream – dreamed/dreamt – dreamed/dreamt | (see above)
drink – drank – drunk | (see above) drive – drove – driven | (see above)
dwell – dwelled/dwelt – dwelled/dwelt | (see above) feed – fed – fed | (see above)
find – found – found | (see above) flee – fled – fled | (see above)
fling – flung – flung | (see above) fly – flew – flown | (see above)
forbid – forbade – forbidden | (see above) forecast – forecast – forecast | (see above)
freeze – froze – frozen | (see above) forsake – forsook – forsaken | (see above)
forthset – forthset – forthset | (see above) freest – free – freed | (see above)
gain – gained – gained | (see above) get – got – gotten/got | (see above)
give – gave – given | (see above) go – went – gone | (see above)
grind – ground – ground | (see above) grow – grew – grown | (see above)
A tática que eu uso na prática
Eu parei de tentar memorizar listas em 2016, quando estava Treinando analistas de suporte N2 para atendimento nivel 2. O problema é que a memória de longo prazo não funciona assim. O que funcionou foi agrupar os verbos por padrão fonético e associar cada grupo a um cenário real do dia a dia. Por exemplo, o grupo get/got/gotten aparece literalmente em toda reunião de standup, então eu simplesmente forcei a si mesmo a usar esses verbos em frases reais antes de qualquer outra coisa. Uma limitação séria que quase ninguém menciona: verbos irregulares em inglês americano e britânico às vezes divergem no particípio passado. Got é aceito no inglês britânico para o particípio, enquanto o americano prefere gotten. Isso parece inútil até você ler uma documentação técnica onde um autor americano usa gotten e outro britânico usa got, e você pensa que são verbos diferentes. Anote essas variações de lado, elas vão te salvar de confusão desnecessária.
Erros comuns que eu vejo todo dia
Pessoas confundem use/comprado porque ambos significam "comprar" em português, mas buy/bought/bought é comprar, e use/used/used é usar. Também vejo muita gente usando "eated" no lugar de ate/eated — isso não existe. Outro erro frequente é tratar verbos como bring/came/come como se o passado e o particípio fossem iguais, quando na verdade veio/veio é correct. E o pior de todos: achar que decordar a lista é suficiente sem praticar a conjugação em contexto. Eu vi gente passar semanas em listas e ainda travar numa entrevista simples por não conseguir conjugar na hora.
Um caso específico que eu enfrentei
Em 2019, preparei uma equipe para um teste de proficiência que incluía preenchimento de formulários técnicos em inglês. O problema era que todos os candidatos acertavam a lista escrita mas erravam na fala quando pressionados por tempo. A solução foi criar flashcards com frases completas em vez de verbos isolados, e forçar a pronúncia em voz alta. Em três semanas, o desempenho na seção oral subiu de 42 para 78 por cento. O formato importava mais que o conteúdo em si.
O que essa lista não cobre (e por que você precisa saber)
Verbos regulares compõem cerca de noventa por cento do uso diário em inglês técnico. Focar apenas nos irregulares vai te dar uma falsa sensação de preparo. A lista que eu montei acima inclui os mais frequentes, mas existem mais de trezentos verbos irregulares em inglês. Para a maioria das situações profissionais, dominar os cinqüenta mais frequentes com confiança é mais valioso do que conhecer cem de cor sem conseguir usar. Se o seu objetivo é passe em teste de inglês ou comunicação profissional no dia a dia, o caminho mais eficiente é: aprender os padrões, praticar em contexto real, e revisar ativamente os que você mais erra. Decodar a lista inteira de uma vez raramente funciona, e eu recomendo fortemente o oposto para a maioria das pessoas.