Irregular verb · #108 by frequency

prove — past tense and past participle

Baseprovepruːv

Past simpleprovedpruːvd

Past participleprovenˈpruːvən

In a sentence

Base: New evidence could prove his innocence.

Past simple: The results proved the theory wrong.

Past participle: The vaccine has proven effective in clinical trials.

Regional variants

Past participleprovedUKpruːvd

Translations

Españolprobar

Françaisprouver

Русскийдоказывать

Українськадоводити

Deutschbeweisen

Portuguêsprovar

Italianoprovare

Polskiudowadniać

Türkçekanıtlamak

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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