Irregular verb · #140 by frequency

swell — past tense and past participle

Baseswellswel

Past simpleswelledsweld

Past participleswollenˈswəʊlən

In a sentence

Base: Rivers often swell after heavy rain.

Past simple: The crowd swelled as the concert began.

Past participle: His ankle has swollen badly since the fall.

Translations

Españolhincharse

Françaisenfler

Русскийопухать

Українськаопухати

Deutschschwellen

Portuguêsinchar

Italianogonfiarsi

Polskipuchnąć

Türkçeşişmek

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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