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Present participle (formed regularly): bêíng.Present tense subjunctive bê (mainly AmE).Too irregular to fit completely into the table is the verb bê:
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Not all the forms listed are in common use: for example, people are still described as being behôlden to others, but the verb itself, behôld, meaning 'look at', is nowadays only used poetically or in jest. These are included here in cases where their form is different from that of the past participle (regular verbs with this feature are also included, and these forms are sometimes used in place of the regular past participle). Contrariwise, dîve usually has past tense dôve in AmE, but this form is not used in BrE.Ī number of irregular verbs also have associated passive adjectives, as for example súnken, from sínk, sánk, súnk ( súnken chêeks) and as in såwn-óff shótgun and neŵ-môwn låwns. But the past tense and/or past participle are not formed regularly: to béar, has the principal parts béar, bŏre, bŏrn/ bŏrne, which means that there is no form *beared instead, an example of the past tense is shê bŏre hím and of the past passive hê was bŏrn.Ī number of verbs that are irregular in British English are regular in American English, such as spéll: both past forms are spélt in BrE, but the regular form spélled is usual in AmE both variants are listed here. Irregular verbs also have these forms, and form the - s and - ing forms regularly: béar, béars, béaring. the past form, which is used for both the past tense and the past participle, and which consists of adding - ed to the base (from wâit, I wâited, shê has wâited, *wâitid from loòk, loòked *lùkt from sêem, sêemed *sêemd), or, in the case of verbs ending in - e, - d only (from fâde, fâded *fâidid).the - íng form, used for the present participle and gerund ( Î'm wâiting, wâiting ís bŏring in most cases the base sheds any final e: compare sínging sing with síngeing singe, pronounced *sínjing).the - s form, which is used for the third person singular of the present tense ( hê wâits, shê wâits).Words in italics suggest meaning, and an equals sign is placed between homophones) There is also a key at the foot of this page. the base, which is equivalent to the infinitive without 'to' and most forms of the present tense (for example, wâit, to wâit, Î wâit) (The accents, which are not part of the language, are included to show stress and pronunciation: see English spellings for a table and English phonemes for the IPA.Regular verbs in English have four forms: