Irregular verb · #162 by frequency

slay — past tense and past participle

Baseslaysleɪ

Past simpleslewsluː

Past participleslainsleɪn

In a sentence

Base: In the story, the knight must slay a dragon.

Past simple: The hero slew the monster with one blow.

Past participle: The dragon was finally slain after a long battle.

Translations

Españolmatar

Françaistuer

Русскийубивать

Українськавбивати

Deutscherschlagen

Portuguêsmatar

Italianouccidere

Polskizabijać

Türkçeöldürmek

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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