But the tendency to uniformity is so strong that many of these verbs have lost one or both of their peculiar forms, and others have two forms for the past indefinite and perfect participle.
21. The following is a complete list of these verbs, classified mainly by their present forms, yet not without regard to their original forms in the Anglo-Saxon. It must be observed that the original forms of many of these verbs are obsolete, or preserved in provincial usage only (and such forms are enclosed in parentheses); and that sometimes the past tense is used for the participle, and sometimes the terminal n or en has been dropped.
First Division. Verbs which change their vowel sounds, and form their perfect participles by adding en or n, or strong verbs.
1st Class Vowels e and a, becoming e, a, or o.
| Present Indef. Tense. | Past Indef. Tense. | Perfect Participle. |
| Delve | (dolve, dalf) delved | delved |
| Get | got (gat) | (gotten) got |
| Help | (holp, halp) helped | (holpen) helped |
| Melt | (molt) melted | molten, melted |
| Sweat | (swote, swat) Sweat, sweated | (sweaten) sweated |
| Swell | (swoll) swelled | swollen, swelled |
| Yell | (yoll) yelled | yelled |
| Burst | (brast) burst | (borsten) burst |
| Beat | beat | beaten, beat |
| Eat | eat, ate | eaten, eat |
| Bear (bring forth) | bore (bare) | born |
| Bear (carry) | bore (bare) | borne |
| Break | broke (brake) | broken, broke |
| Cleave (adhere) | (clave) cleaved | cleaved |
| Cleave (split) | (clove, clave) cleft | cloven, cleft |
| Creep | (clove, clave) cleft | cloven, cleft |
| Creep | (crope) crept | crept |
| (Falde) fold | folded | (folden) folded |
| Freeze | froze | frozen |
| Heave | (hove) heaved | (hoven) heaved |
| (Quench) | quoth | |
| Lead | (lode, lad) led | led |
| Leap | (lode) leapt, leaped | lept, leaped |
| Seethe | (soth) sod, seethed | sodden |
| Shear | (shore) sheared | shorn |
| Speak | spoke (spake) | spoken |
| Steal | stole (stale) | stolen |
| Swear | swore (sware) | sworn |
| Tear | tore (tare) | torn |
| Wear | wore (ware) | worn |
| Weave | wore (ware) | worn |
| Weep | (wope) wept | wept |
| Wreak | (wroke) wreaked | (wroken) wreked |
| Wreathe | wreathed | wreathen, wreathed |
| Yield | (yolde) yield | yielded |
| (Be) | been | |
| See | saw | seen |
| Awake, wake | awoke | awaked |
| Bake | (boke) baked | (baken) baked |
| Forsake | forsook | foraken |
| Grave | (grove) graved | graven, graved |
| Lade | (lode) laded | laden, loaden |
| Shake | shook, shaked | shaken, shaked |
| Shape | (shope) shaped | shapen, shaped |
| Shave | shaved | shaven, shaved |
| Stave | stove | |
| Take | took | taken |
| Stand | stood | stood |
| Wax | (wox, wex) waxed | (waxen) waxed |
2d Class. Vowel i, becoming a, o, u, or ou
| Begin | began (begon) | begun |
| Cling | clung (clong) | clung |
| Dig | dug, digged | dug, digged |
| Drink | drank (drunk, dronk) | drunken, drunk |
| Fling | flung (flang, flong) | flung |
| Hang (hing) | hung, hanged | hung, hanged |
| Ring | rang, rung (rong) | rung |
| Run (rin) | ran | run |
| Shrink | shrank, shrunk (shronk) | shrunken, shrunk |
| Sing | sang, sung (song) | sung |
| Sink | sank, sunk (sonk) | sunken, sunk |
| Sling | (slang) slung (slong) | slung |
| Slink | (slank) slunk (slonk) | slunk |
| Spin | (span) spun (spon) | spun |
| Spring | sprang, sprung (sprong) | sprung |
| Stick | stuck (stoke) | stuck |
| Sting | (stang) stung (stong) | stung |
| Stink | stank, stunk (stonk) | stunk |
| String | (strang) strung | strung |
| Swim | swam, swum (swom) | swum |
| Swing | (swang) swung (swong) | swung |
| Swink | (swank, swonk) swink | (swonk) swinkt |
| Win | (wan) won | won |
| Wring | wrung, wringed | wrung |
| Bid | bade (bode), bid | bidden, bid |
| Give | gave (grove) | given |
| Sit | sate | sitten, sate |
| slit | (slat) slit, slitted | slitten, slit, slitted |
| Split | spat, spit | spitten, spit, spat |
| Betide | betid | betid |
| Hide | hid | hidden, hid |
| Light | lit, lighted | lit, lighted |
| Slide | slid | slidden, slid |
| Abide, bide | abode | abode |
| Arise, rise | arose (aris) | arisen |
| Bite | (bote, bat) bit | bitten, bit |
| Chide | (chode) chid | chidden, chid |
| Climb | (clomb, clamb) climbed | climbed |
| Dive | (dove) dived | dived |
| Drive | drove (drave) | driven |
| Glide | (glode, glid) glided | glided |
| Hight | (hote, gete) | |
| Lie | lay | lien, lain |
| Ride | rode, rid | ridden, rid |
| Rive | (rove) rived | riven |
| Shrive | (shove) shrived | shriven |
| Smite | smote (smate) smit | smitten, smit |
| Strive | strove | striven |
| Thrive | throve, thrived | thriven |
| Write | wrote (wrate) writ | written, writ, wrote |
| Writhe | writhed | writhen, writhed |
| shine | shone, shined | shone, shined |
| Wit (wite) | (wote) wot | |
| Strike | (stoke) struck | stricken, struck |
| Blind | bound (bond) | bounden, bound |
| Fight | fought | foughten, fought |
