Inglés Básico: Verbos Irregulares, Pasado Simple y Present Perfect con Ejemplos

Vocabulario de relaciones de pareja

meet somebody - conocer a alguien
fancy somebody - gustarle a alguien
ask somebody out - pedir salir
go out with somebody - salir con alguien
fall in love - enamorarse de alguien
have an argument - pelearse con alguien
split up - cortar
make up - reconciliarse
get engaged - comprometerse
get married - casarse
get divorced - divorciarse

Verbos: sustantivos derivados

advertise - advertisement
announce - announcement
calculate - calculation
celebrate - celebration
collect - collection
disappoint - disappointment
embarrass - embarrassment
entertain - entertainment
invent - invention
pollute - pollution

Texto de ejemplo

My girlfriend's name is Marta. We've been together for two months, but I knew her when I was fifteen. We get on very well. We had an argument and split up last week, but two days later we made up and started going out again. I think we both fell in love, and it is because we are together.

Verbos irregulares

be - was/were - been - ser/estar
become - became - become - llegar a ser
begin - began - begun - empezar
bite - bit - bitten - morder
break - broke - broken - romper
bring - brought - brought - traer
build - built - built - construir
burn - burnt - burnt - quemar
buy - bought - bought - comprar
catch - caught - caught - coger
choose - chose - chosen - elegir
come - came - come - venir
cost - cost - cost - costar
cut - cut - cut - cortar
do - did - done - hacer
draw - drew - drawn - dibujar
dream - dreamt - dreamt - soñar
drink - drank - drunk - beber
drive - drove - driven - conducir
eat - ate - eaten - comer
fall - fell - fallen - caer
feed - fed - fed - alimentar
feel - felt - felt - sentir
fight - fought - fought - luchar
find - found - found - encontrar
fly - flew - flown - volar
forget - forgot - forgotten - olvidar
freeze - froze - frozen - helarse
get - got - got - obtener

Pasado simple

Se usa cuando la acción sucedió en un momento terminado del pasado.

Afirmativa: sujeto + verbo en 2ª columna (o + -ed)
Negativa: sujeto + didn't + verbo en infinitivo
Interrogativa: (WH) + DID + sujeto + verbo en infinitivo

Expresiones de tiempo: ago, yesterday, last month, at five o'clock, in 2006, yet

Respuestas cortas: Yes, I was. / No, I wasn't.

Present Perfect

Afirmativa: sujeto + have/has + participio (3ª columna o -ed)
Negativa: sujeto + haven't/hasn't + participio
Interrogativa: have/has + sujeto + participio

Expresiones con Present Perfect

EVER (Have you ever...?) - alguna vez
NEVER (I've never...) - nunca
YET (interrogativas y negativas) - todavía / ya
ALREADY (afirmativas: I've already...) - ya
JUST (she's just...) - acabar de

FOR (duración)

a few days, a short time, a week, ages, six months, three years

SINCE (punto de inicio)

I was a child, July, last summer, three o'clock, yesterday, 2004