Irregular verb · #167 by frequency

foresee — past tense and past participle

Baseforeseefɔːˈsiː

Past simpleforesawfɔːˈsɔː

Past participleforeseenfɔːˈsiːn

In a sentence

Base: Nobody can foresee every problem in advance.

Past simple: She foresaw the traffic and left early.

Past participle: The delay had not been foreseen by anyone.

Translations

Españolprever

Françaisprévoir

Русскийпредвидеть

Українськапередбачати

Deutschvoraussehen

Portuguêsprever

Italianoprevedere

Polskiprzewidywać

Türkçeöngörmek

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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