Irregular verb · #39 by frequency

fall — past tense and past participle

Basefallfɔːl

Past simplefellfel

Past participlefallenˈfɔːlən

In a sentence

Base: Be careful, the leaves fall fast in autumn.

Past simple: He fell off his bike on the way home.

Past participle: Snow has fallen steadily since early this morning.

Translations

Españolcaer

Françaistomber

Русскийпадать

Українськападати

Deutschfallen

Portuguêscair

Italianocadere

Polskipadać

Türkçedüşmek

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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