1266: Why 'Go' is Irregular May 29, 2018

The two most commonly used irregular verbs in English are 'to be' and 'to go', but both of them have conjugational forms derived of multiple words. Many so-called 'irregular verbs' are regular within less common systems of conjugation (see the video below here), but 'go' to 'went' follows no system. In fact, 'went' was originally the perfect form of 'wend' which is related to 'wonder' and 'wind'. It follows the same patter of 'lend-lent' and 'bend-bent', meaning that 'wend' is a regular verb, but 'go', which used to be regular too, no longer is. For a comparison with the even-stranger "be-am/are/is-was/were-been" click the link here.