regularities in irregular verbs

Irregular verbs have rigid consistent rules just as regular verbs do. The difference is that the rules are different from those of the regular verbs.

Unfortunately, you just need to memorize the irregular verbs.

There are groups and similarities, but the irregularities (where there is no pattern) is what makes learning a new language difficult.

Es igual para nosotros en espanol. Los verbos irregulares me frustran mucho.

I would consider recognizing a -t/-d rule with vowel shortening can be useful in teaching. What do you think?

Since I'm not familiar with the -t/-d rule, I can not comment.

What you have here are families of related cases. Some are verbs which belonged to groups which followed a rule in the past, others are hybrids of different verbs which came together over the course of time, others are weak verbs which developed strong forms. If you want to go into this in depth, I recommend you have a look at
wikipedia - irregular verbs
A good quick reference is
verbbusters

The conjugation of irregular verbs in English is itself irregular and inconsistent, e.g. speak-spoke, but not leak-loke; write-wrote, but not bite, bote.

Like ebrown said, you just have to memorize the irregular verbs.

They wouldn't be called "irregular" if there was a rule you could apply to remember them.

Re: regularities in irregular verbs


Yeah, they're regularly irregular!