{"id":7530,"date":"2026-07-17T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:14:11","slug":"irregular-verbs-taiwan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/zh\/irregular-verbs-taiwan-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"\u52d5\u8a5e\u4e09\u614b: Irregular Verbs \u5b8c\u6574\u6e05\u55ae\u8207 8 \u5927\u898f\u5247 (2026) | \u82f1\u6587\u4e0d\u898f\u5247\u52d5\u8a5e\u8868"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nQuick Answer \uff08\u5feb\u901f\u89e3\u7b54\uff09:<\/strong> Irregular verbs are verbs that do not add -ed<\/em> to form the past tense. Instead they change their spelling in unpredictable ways \u2014 go \u2192 went \u2192 gone<\/em>, buy \u2192 bought \u2192 bought<\/em>, cut \u2192 cut \u2192 cut<\/em>. English has around 200 in daily use, but you only need about 100 to read and speak fluently. The fastest way to learn them is to group verbs by their sound pattern (\u52d5\u8a5e\u4e09\u614b) rather than memorize a flat list alphabetically.\n<\/div>\n

Roughly 70% of the most frequently used verbs in English are irregular. That single fact explains why irregular verbs cause more grammar errors for Taiwan learners than any other topic \u2014 the verbs you reach for most often are exactly the ones that refuse to follow the rules. If you have ever written “I goed<\/em> to Taipei” or “She has eated<\/em> lunch,” you already know the pain. The good news: irregular verbs are not random. They fall into a handful of sound families, and once you hear the pattern, memorizing them stops feeling like brute force.<\/p>\n

This guide gives you the three forms of every common verb (\u52d5\u8a5e\u4e09\u614b: \u539f\u5f62\u3001\u904e\u53bb\u5f0f\u3001\u904e\u53bb\u5206\u8a5e), a categorized list you can actually memorize, the rules behind the patterns, and the specific mistakes Taiwanese speakers make most. Bookmark the table \u2014 it is the part you will come back to.<\/p>\n

What Are Irregular Verbs? \uff08\u4ec0\u9ebc\u662f\u4e0d\u898f\u5247\u52d5\u8a5e\uff1f\uff09<\/h2>\n

A regular verb builds its past tense and past participle by adding -ed<\/em>: walk \u2192 walked \u2192 walked<\/em>, play \u2192 played \u2192 played<\/em>. Simple and predictable. An irregular verb ignores that rule and changes its stem instead. \u8aaa\u8a71<\/em> becomes spoke<\/em> \u548c spoken<\/em>; write<\/em> becomes wrote<\/em> \u548c written<\/em>. There is no -ed<\/em> to lean on, which is why you have to learn each one as a small piece of vocabulary rather than a formula.<\/p>\n

Chinese does not conjugate verbs for tense at all \u2014 \u300c\u6211\u6628\u5929\u53bb\u300dand\u300c\u6211\u660e\u5929\u53bb\u300duse the same \u300c\u53bb\u300d. So the whole idea of a verb physically changing shape is foreign, not just the specific forms. That is the real reason irregular verbs feel harder in Taiwan than they do for, say, a German learner whose own language is full of them.<\/p>\n

\"Practicing<\/p>\n

Writing each verb by hand \u2014 base, past, participle \u2014 locks the pattern in faster than reading alone.<\/p>\n

The Three Forms of Every Verb \uff08\u52d5\u8a5e\u4e09\u614b\uff09<\/h2>\n

Every English verb has three principal forms, and Taiwanese textbooks call this \u52d5\u8a5e\u4e09\u614b. Get comfortable with the names, because grammar explanations everywhere assume you know them:<\/p>\n