Irregular Verbs

Weekend Handout

Dear friends of Holiday Greek,

My life is still a bit chaotic at the moment, so these posts will be coming — in principle — weekly, but may be arriving at different days of the week. I hope that’s okay with you.

This time, our weekend handout is a list of irregular verbs. For some strange reason, the most common Greek verbs are irregular, while the less used ones follow the regular and boring patterns with their different forms. This makes speaking Greek particularly challenging, because just the words you’d like to use most are those that are also the hardest to use correctly.

But today we’ll change this. Here is a list of the ten most common irregular verbs. What you will see in this file are the present forms (“I go”), the simple or momentary past (“I went once”), the continuous past (“I used to go”) and the future (“I will go”).

I hope that you’ll find this useful!