Type any English verb, regular or irregular, and see every form at once: the past tense, past participle and -ing form, plus all twelve tenses for every person in positive, negative and question form. Phrasal verbs like “give up” work too.
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Base form
Past simple
Past participle
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How to use the English Verb Conjugator
Type a verb in the box, with or without “to” (go, to write, give up), or click one of the examples.
Read the key forms: base form, third person, past tense, past participle and -ing form.
Choose Positive, Negative or Question to switch every tense to that form.
Tick Use contractions to see don’t, doesn’t, won’t, haven’t and so on.
Click Copy conjugation to paste the whole table into notes or homework.
The 12 English tenses at a glance
Each tense combines a time (past, present, future) with an aspect. The pattern is the same for every verb; only the main verb form changes.
Tense
Formula
Example (write)
Present simple
base / base + s
She writes.
Present progressive
am/is/are + -ing
She is writing.
Present perfect
have/has + past participle
She has written.
Present perfect progressive
have/has been + -ing
She has been writing.
Past simple
past form
She wrote.
Past progressive
was/were + -ing
She was writing.
Past perfect
had + past participle
She had written.
Past perfect progressive
had been + -ing
She had been writing.
Future simple
will + base
She will write.
Future progressive
will be + -ing
She will be writing.
Future perfect
will have + past participle
She will have written.
Future perfect progressive
will have been + -ing
She will have been writing.
Spelling rules for regular verbs
Verb ending
-s form
-ed form
-ing form
Most verbs
walk → walks
walked
walking
-s, -x, -z, -ch, -sh, consonant + o
watch → watches, go → goes
watched
watching
Consonant + y
study → studies
studied
studying (y kept)
Vowel + y
play → plays
played
playing
Silent -e
make → makes
baked (+d)
making (e dropped)
-ee, -ye, -oe
agree → agrees
agreed
agreeing, dyeing (e kept)
-ie
die → dies
died
dying (ie → y)
Stressed consonant-vowel-consonant
stop → stops
stopped
stopping (consonant doubled)
Unstressed final syllable (US)
visit → visits
visited, traveled
visiting, traveling
-ic
panic → panics
panicked (+k)
panicking
Tips for learners
Learn irregular verbs in groups that change the same way: sing/sang/sung, ring/rang/rung, drink/drank/drunk; or cut/cut/cut, put/put/put, hit/hit/hit.
Use do, does and did only in the simple tenses for negatives and questions. Every other tense already has a helper verb that takes not or moves to the front.
Do not add -s after does or did: “Does she write?” not “Does she writes?”; “He didn’t go,” not “He didn’t went.”
Stative verbs (know, like, own, believe, seem) are rarely used in progressive tenses. The tool still shows those forms, but “I am knowing” sounds wrong in most contexts.
Frequently asked questions
How many tenses does English have?
English grammar is usually taught with 12 tenses: three times (past, present, future) combined with four aspects (simple, progressive or continuous, perfect, and perfect progressive). Strictly speaking, linguists say English has only two inflected tenses, past and present, and uses helper verbs like will, have and be to build the rest.
What is the difference between past tense and past participle?
The past tense is used on its own for finished actions (I wrote a letter). The past participle is used after have, has or had to form perfect tenses (I have written) and after be for the passive (it was written). For regular verbs the two are the same (walked, walked), but many irregular verbs differ (write, wrote, written).
How do I know if a verb is irregular?
Regular verbs form the past tense and past participle by adding -ed (or -d). Irregular verbs change in other ways (go, went, gone; cut, cut, cut). This tool checks a built-in list of over 200 common irregular verbs; anything not on the list is conjugated with the regular spelling rules.
When do you double the final consonant?
Double the last consonant before -ed or -ing when the verb ends in consonant-vowel-consonant and the last syllable is stressed: stop → stopped, plan → planning, prefer → preferred. Do not double w, x or y (snowing, fixing, playing), or when the stress is not on the last syllable in American English (visit → visited, travel → traveled).
Why does it say gotten for get?
American English uses gotten as the usual past participle of get (I have gotten better), while British English mostly uses got. The table shows the American form first and alternatives after a slash, such as burned/burnt or dreamed/dreamt.
Can it conjugate modal verbs like can and must?
Modal verbs (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would) have no infinitive, participles or -s form, so they cannot be put into all 12 tenses. The tool explains this and suggests a replacement such as be able to or have to, which you can conjugate fully.
Does it handle lie and lay?
Yes. Lie meaning to recline is irregular (lie, lay, lain), lie meaning to say something untrue is regular (lie, lied, lied), and lay meaning to put down is irregular (lay, laid, laid). The tool conjugates lie as recline and shows a note with the other meaning.
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