Learn the verbs you will actually use every day.

Here you can browse the conjugation of the 50 most useful English verbs: third person singular, -ingform, past simple, past participle, and Italian translation. Start with the irregular ones, then move to the regular ones.

Irregular

Start here

These verbs require a bit more memory, but they unlock your conversations right away.

Regular

Easy patterns

Here the advantage is the pattern: once you nail the base form and the ending, most of the work is done.

Tips

Practical method

You also get a mini method to learn conjugation without having to restart from scratch every time.

Irregular

Most important irregular verbs

These are the ones to keep closest. Many of them appear in chat, reading, listening, and everyday sentences.

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Base	3rd sing.	-ing	Past	Participle	Translation
be	is	being	was / were	been	essere
have	has	having	had	had	avere
do	does	doing	did	done	fare
say	says	saying	said	said	dire
go	goes	going	went	gone	andare
get	gets	getting	got	got / gotten	ottenere / ricevere
make	makes	making	made	made	fare / creare
know	knows	knowing	knew	known	sapere / conoscere
think	thinks	thinking	thought	thought	pensare
take	takes	taking	took	taken	prendere
see	sees	seeing	saw	seen	vedere
come	comes	coming	came	come	venire
find	finds	finding	found	found	trovare
give	gives	giving	gave	given	dare
tell	tells	telling	told	told	dire / raccontare
feel	feels	feeling	felt	felt	sentire / provare
become	becomes	becoming	became	become	diventare
leave	leaves	leaving	left	left	lasciare / partire
put	puts	putting	put	put	mettere
mean	means	meaning	meant	meant	significare / intendere
keep	keeps	keeping	kept	kept	tenere / conservare
let	lets	letting	let	let	lasciare / permettere
begin	begins	beginning	began	begun	iniziare
show	shows	showing	showed	shown	mostrare
hear	hears	hearing	heard	heard	sentire / udire
run	runs	running	ran	run	correre
bring	brings	bringing	brought	brought	portare
write	writes	writing	wrote	written	scrivere
sit	sits	sitting	sat	sat	sedersi / stare seduto
speak	speaks	speaking	spoke	spoken	parlare
lose	loses	losing	lost	lost	perdere

Regular

High-frequency regular verbs

Here you can rely on patterns: past simple and past participle usually match and end in -ed.

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Base	3rd sing.	-ing	Past	Participle	Translation
want	wants	wanting	wanted	wanted	volere
look	looks	looking	looked	looked	guardare
use	uses	using	used	used	usare
work	works	working	worked	worked	lavorare
call	calls	calling	called	called	chiamare
try	tries	trying	tried	tried	provare
ask	asks	asking	asked	asked	chiedere
need	needs	needing	needed	needed	avere bisogno
seem	seems	seeming	seemed	seemed	sembrare
help	helps	helping	helped	helped	aiutare
talk	talks	talking	talked	talked	parlare
turn	turns	turning	turned	turned	girare / diventare
start	starts	starting	started	started	cominciare
play	plays	playing	played	played	giocare / suonare
move	moves	moving	moved	moved	muovere / trasferirsi
live	lives	living	lived	lived	vivere
believe	believes	believing	believed	believed	credere
love	loves	loving	loved	loved	amare
open	opens	opening	opened	opened	aprire

Practical tips

How to memorize conjugation better

Start with the super-verbs

Memorize be, have, and do first: they appear everywhere and help you build questions, negatives, and compound tenses.

Study in families

Group similar verbs together: keep-kept-kept, feel-felt-felt, mean-meant-meant. The brain remembers patterns better than random lists.

Repeat out loud

Read the full set aloud: go, goes, going, went, gone. Hearing the rhythm helps a lot to lock in the conjugation.

Use mini sentences, not isolated words

Turn every verb into 3 tiny sentences: I go to work. Yesterday I went by bus. I have gone there before.

Short but frequent review

10 minutes a day is better than a long session once in a while. Revisit the trickiest verbs after 1 day, 3 days, and 1 week.

Switch between writing and chat

After you study about ten verbs, use them right away in the chat with Spark and ask for corrections on tenses and forms.