Irregular verb · #59 by frequency

eat — past tense and past participle

Baseeatiːt

Past simpleateet

Past participleeatenˈiːtən

In a sentence

Base: We eat dinner together every evening.

Past simple: He ate the last slice of pizza.

Past participle: All the food had been eaten before we arrived.

Translations

Españolcomer

Françaismanger

Русскийесть

Українськаїсти

Deutschessen

Portuguêscomer

Italianomangiare

Polskijeść

Türkçeyemek

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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