DigDug

For iPhone · A player, not a quiz app

Learn irregular verbs the way you learned songs.

200 irregular English verbs, spoken base → past → participle, hands-free, with IPA and translations in 9 languages. Press play and listen — on a walk, on a commute, with your phone in your pocket.

Irregular verb · #1 by frequency

Basego/ɡəʊ/
Pastwent/wɛnt/
Participlegone/ɡɒn/

Spoken in sequence in the app — base, past, participle, one after another.

Why another verb list falls flat

Reading a table doesn't teach you a sound.

Three ways the usual approach to irregular verbs works against how they're actually learned.

Tables you re-read and forget

A printed list of 200 rows asks you to memorize spelling. It never tells you how any of it sounds.

Apps that gamify instead of teach

Streaks and points measure whether you opened the app, not whether you've learned the verb.

No sense of the real sound

Irregular verbs aren't random — they fall into families that share a vowel shift. That pattern is audible, but only if you hear it.

How it works

Base, past, participle — spoken, in order.

Every verb plays as a short sequence, hands-free, at a pace you control.

The sequence

Each verb speaks its base, past simple and past participle in order, so the pattern lands as a sound, not a rule.

Speed control

Slow it down while a pattern is new, speed it up once it isn't. The sequence stays the same either way.

Background playback

Lock your phone, put it in your pocket, keep listening — playback keeps going, with lock-screen controls.

Pattern families

15 vowel-shift families — i → a → u, ought/-aught, and more — group verbs by how they actually sound, not alphabetically.

What's inside

A corpus, not a sample.

Every irregular verb worth learning, mapped and pronounced.

Underground, on a plane, with no signal — it keeps playing.

Every clip you play caches on your phone. Once you've listened to a verb, you don't need a connection to hear it again — the whole point of a player is that it doesn't stop.

Downloaded playlists

Top 20 verbsDownloaded
i → a → u patternDownloaded
Needs practiceDownloaded

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A set of the highest-frequency verbs is free with no time limit. A subscription unlocks the full 200-verb corpus, every pattern family, and offline downloads.

Questions

Press play on the first verb.