Irregular verb · #16 by frequency

become — past tense and past participle

Basebecomebɪˈkʌm

Past simplebecamebɪˈkeɪm

Past participlebecomebɪˈkʌm

In a sentence

Base: She wants to become a doctor.

Past simple: He became famous after that movie.

Past participle: The city has become very crowded lately.

Translations

Españolllegar a ser, convertirse

Françaisdevenir

Русскийстановиться

Українськаставати

Deutschwerden

Portuguêstornar-se

Italianodiventare

Polskistawać się

Türkçeolmak

Pattern

One of a kind

Verbs whose forms follow no reusable pattern: be, go, do, have. Pure memorization, and the highest-frequency verbs in the language — so they get drilled first regardless.

Same pattern

be do go see come give

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