Irregular Verbs
The verbs van ("to be"), jön ("to come") and megy ("to go") have an irregular present tense and irregular stems for different tenses. jön also has irregular forms in the subjunctive. A further group of 9 verbs have irregular stems for different tenses, but follow the same pattern of irregularity as each other. A few other verbs shorten or drop a vowel with certain suffixes.
| A regular verb compared to an irregular | |||
| Regular verb: él (to live) | Irregular verb: megy (to go) | ||
| Past | Present | Past | Present |
| éltem | élek | mentem | megyek |
| éltél | élsz | mentél | mész (sometimes also mégy) |
| élt | él | ment | megy |
| éltünk | élünk | mentünk | megyünk |
| éltetek | éltek | mentetek | mentek |
| éltek | élnek | mentek | mennek |
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