Past tense

Regular Verbs

Simple Present	Simple Past
To answer	answered
To ask	asked
To approve	approved
To belong	belonged
To brush	brushed
To clean	cleaned
To climb	climbed
To cook	cooked
To dance	danced
To discover	discovered
To deliver	delivered
To enjoy	enjoyed
To explain	explained
To finish	finished
To fish	fished
To happen	happened
To kiss	kissed
To like	liked
To live	lived
To need	needed
To open	opened
To paint	painted
To punish	punished
To remember	remembered
To show	showed
To smile	smiled
To start	started
To study	studied
To visit	visited
To wait	waited

Irregular verbs

Simple Present	Past Tense
Be	Was, were
Become	Became
Begin	Began
Bring	Brought
Buy	Bought
Can	Could
Choose	Chose
Come	Came
Cost	Cost
Cut	Cut
Do	Did
Drink	Drank
Drive	Drove
Eat	Ate
Fall	Fell
Feel	Felt
Find	Found
Fly	Flew
Forget	Forgot
Get	Got
Give	Gave
Go	Went
Have	Had
Hear	Heard
Know	Knew
Leave	Left
Let	Let
Make	Made
Meet	Met
Break	Broke
Put	Put
Read	Read
Ride	Rode
Run	Ran
Say	Said
See	Saw
Sell	Sold
Sing	Sang
Sit	Sat
Slay	Slew
Sleep	Slept
Speak	Spoke
Spend	Spent
Steal	Stole
Swim	Swam
Take	Took
Tell	Told
Think	Thought
Wake (up)	Woke (up)
Wet	Wet
Will	Would
Win	Won
Write	Wrote