How to pronounce the 10 most common verbs in English

hello everybody my name is emma and in today's video we are going to learn how to pronounce the top 10 most common verbs in english the interesting thing about the top 10 most common verbs are they are all irregular verbs so we're going to look at how to pronounce them in their different forms including the present tense the past tense in the past participle tense so you're going to hear a lot of different pronunciation and again this is a very important lesson because you will hear these verbs a lot as well as you will be using them a lot because they are the top 10 most common ones and a lot of the times when students are learning pronunciation they feel overwhelmed they think hmm there's just so many words what should i focus on well i think that learning the top 10 verbs of english and their different forms is a great way to start with pronunciation because again all of these words are very common so let's get started the most common verb in english is the verb to be or the be verb now there are different forms of the verb depending on if we are talking about i you he she it we or they okay so let's look at the pronunciation of each of these different parts of the verb we have i am m this is pronounced just like the letter m i am now usually when we're in conversation we don't say i am we actually shorten this into a contraction we often say i'm i'm i'm hungry i'm tired so i can say i am but i'm more likely to say i'm in conversation okay so why don't you repeat after me this word because it's hard for many people to pronounce but it's so common i'm if it helps you to remember it rhymes with time time i'm okay now we have the the uh part the conjugation of the b verb which is r we use r with you or with we you are we are now remember i said this one sounds like the letter m this sounds like the english letter r r so it's nice and simple um when we're talking about the opposite of r when we're talking about the negative version which is are not like you are not we can actually say aren't so this is the contraction of are not you aren't aren't and this is how it's spelled notice there's an apostrophe here so this is another way to say are not we can say aren't okay so we have m r is many students actually mispronounce this word is and it's a very common word in english the reason they mispronounce it is because the s here actually sounds like a zed sound so i'm gonna put a little zed here to help you um remember this listen to my pronunciation is is now i'm really stressing it um i wouldn't do that in conversation but many students actually say is where they pronounce it like an s but it's actually pronounced like a z at the end is and then we have here the negative version so we can say he is she is the negative version is is not or if i want to use a contraction i can say isn't isn't and notice for this it's two parts isn't and one part is louder and longer the first part is louder and longer so listen carefully isn't he isn't here she isn't here okay so we've talked about i'm um so we've talked about i am you are he is she is we are they are so um these are the words we use when we're talking about be in the present tense or um sometimes we use these as what are called helping verbs but the main thing to learn right now is just focus on the pronunciation this is less about grammar more about pronunciation now if we're talking about the past like we're talking about yesterday or a year ago sometime in the past we can use the be verb in the past tense so we have was and were again these are they mean the same thing we just use different ones depending on if we're talking about i you he she they or we we can say i was he was she was it was so notice the pronunciation was now if we're talking about you or they we can use were you were they were okay so it's a short sounding word um were now if we wanted to talk about the negative form of this word the pronunciation is wasn't wasn't if we wanted to talk about the pronunciation of this word um in the negative form we would say weren't weren't you weren't there they weren't there we weren't there so those are some examples now the third form of a verb is called the past participle so a past participle you will find in different types of grammar i'll give you one example we use it a lot in something called the present perfect so i might say something like i have been to china bin this is a word that many students mispronounce it's pronounced like bin i hear many students say being where they try to make it a long e but it's more like bin okay so it's a bit shorter so there's a lot of words we've covered here but they all mean be they're just different conjugations or different tenses the next word that's the second most common verb in english is have to have so we have have with a v sound or has with a z sound at the end even though it has an s we pronounce it like a zed so we can say i have you have he has she has they have so this is the verb in the present tense now if we are talking about the past tense we can use the verb had had and we can use this for all of the different conjugations had so notice the a sound in this had my mouth goes really big when i pronounce this a here had now if i wanted to talk about the negative form of this i could say hadn't this means had not hadn't and again in terms of the past participle um if we're talking about the uh present perfect for example i can say i have had so this is the past participle if you don't know what a past participle is you're not alone it's a very confusing term the main thing i want to teach here is just the pronunciation of words you will hear again the grammar is not so important it's more about the pronunciation um there's something i forgot we have the word hasn't hasn't he hasn't so notice how that's pronounced again n apostrophe t is pronounced almost like ant and he hasn't and this part is usually said quieter and shorter whereas the has part is longer and louder now if we wanted to practice the pronunciation of the negative form of have we could say any guesses haven't so again we have that ant sound at the end and have is said louder and longer haven't and this just means have not but again in conversation we don't usually say have not we usually say haven't okay so we've covered the first two most common words in english or verbs in english and the nice thing about the rest of what we're going to be doing is there's less forms of it the first two have so many different forms so that's why we've spent a lot of time on this but the rest of these have fewer conjugations so it will make it easier for you to remember their pronunciations so the next most common word in english is do to do ooh so notice how i pronounce do it's not do even though there's an o here do it rhymes with you so we have here what's this letter this is a u do you okay so they rhyme i do then we have the u form you do we have the he and she form he does she does and notice again the s sounds more like a zed does then we have the negative form don't i don't know don't and notice this the vowels between these two actually kind of change do don't own so the vowels actually sound kind of different and then we have this word doesn't again we have the e and t and the stress is on the first part you say that part louder and longer doesn't doesn't okay so these are all the present tense of this verb and again we're covering so many different ones because we're covering i you he she it and they and their um conjugations for do now let's look at the past tense so again when we're talking about the past we're talking about yesterday or last week last month last year so that is this area the past tense of do is did did so we have here a short if sound many students must pronounce this word specifically many students say deed like where they make a very long e sound but that's not correct for this sound what we're looking for is the short i sound so look at my mouth notice my mouth is not tight it's actually quite loose and relaxed and it's just very small so let's start just with the id part id it's the same eye you will find in the word it so the i here has the same sound as the eye here did it okay now when we're talking about something that is the opposite of did we can talk about did not or in conversation we often use the word didn't didn't and again we have this nt so that sounds like end and you'll notice this part is the part we say louder and longer it's the stress part didn't i didn't do it you'll notice with a lot of these words the stress is really important for our pronunciation we really need to pay attention to what part we say louder and longer and what part we say a little quieter and shorter if especially if you want to sound more like a local speaker of english or if you feel people don't understand you well making sure that you're using the stress correctly is very important to improving your pronunciation so we have did and didn't now what's the past participle of do the past participle is done done done so this the o in this is not doan it's a a smaller o sound it's un done so it rhymes with un so this u sound it sounds like un the o in here sounds like don they rhyme okay so maybe that can help you with the pronunciation so we've covered the top three english verbs and how to pronounce them we've covered a lot of actually a lot of words now let's look at the rest of the words in english and their pronunciations okay so we've already covered a lot of different words so now let's cover the fourth most common word which is say the verb to say something say so we often say i say you say we say they say notice how i pronounce this so it's one syllable say and it kind of sounds like a in in terms of the pronunciation the verb or sorry the vowel sounds like a say a okay so it's an a sound like the letter a it rhymes say now the pronunciation of this word really changes when we add an s even the vowel sound changes in this so i said say when we're talking about he or she or it it becomes says says and notice the s here so this s actually sounds like a z sound a z sound says says it kind of reminds me of the pronunciation i don't know if you know about the candy we call it pez where um you have like an animal or something and you lift the head up and a little piece of candy pops out pes the vowel sounds similar says so listen again to the difference between these two words and the vowels specifically say says say and notice my lips are really tight here say says so even the way my mouth moves is different so this is in the present now if we're talking about yesterday or last week or the past tense we would say said said it rhymes with the name ed said can you say this word said and if we're talking about the past participle so for example in the present perfect i can say i have said it's the exact same pronunciation and the same word as the past so the past participle and the past tense are the same so that makes it a little bit easier for you it's just said and said now the fifth most common word in english not word verb is get to get so again this is our present tense column if i'm talking about i i get it you get it we get they get get get now when we add an s here for he and she he gets it she gets it gets does this sound like a zed or like an s so listen carefully gets gets it's actually an s sound so this sounds like an s we've talked about a lot of other words where the s sounds like a zed in this case bs actually sounds like an s so that makes it a little bit easier gets now the past tense of this word is got got so we changed the e to an o to make the past tense yesterday i got it got so this rhymes with a lot of different words we can it rhymes with caught got it runs with bought which is the past tense of by ah so let's practice the verb here ah ot ot and now let's add the g got got okay so that's the past tense now if we're talking about the past participle or the the verb we use when we use have in front of it or had we use the word gotten gotten i have gotten great marks i have gotten it gotten so what do you notice about where the stress is what part do we say louder and longer gotten well if you said this part is louder and longer you are correct there's two parts to the pronunciation of this word and the first part is louder the second part is quieter gotten she has gotten it okay so we have done say get now let's do the sixth most common word verb which is make make i make you make we make they make it rhymes with cake so we have the word cake make so they sound very similar now if i wanted to talk about he or she or it i use the word makes makes now what do you notice about the s here is the s pronounced like a zed or like an s so listen carefully makes makes it's actually pronounced like an s it's not a z sound so the s sounds like an s makes and notice it's only one syllable it's not make is makes so it's one part now if we're talking about the past tense sorry the past tense of this word we say made made aid made so let's start just with the this part let's pronounce this aid a aid now if we add the m made made one thing you can do when you're learning how to pronounce different words is you can actually look at what your mouth is doing with a mirror um you'll notice that for some of these vowel sounds my mouth goes really big and for other vowel sounds my mouth actually goes small or sometimes my mouth goes really tight sometimes it goes more loose so watch what my lips are doing and then when you pronounce these vowels you can use a mirror and try to do a similar positioning of your lips okay so we talked about the past tense made now let's talk about the past participle i have made it made so it's the same pronunciation as the past tense and it's actually the same word so this is nice and easy that one will be easy for you to remember the seventh most common verb in english is the verb go to go now i can use i go and notice the vowel sound here it's nice and easy we have an o and in this case it actually the vowel sounds like the the letter go oh this one's easier to remember now when we are talking about he or she we need to add es and it becomes goes goes now what do you notice about the s sound here is it a z sound like a zed or is it a s sound like an s goes it's actually a z sound so this sounds more like a zed so my main point with this is anytime you see an s at the end of an english word you should always think is it going to be a s sound or a z sound because the s in english the writing of the s this letter can be either a z sound or an s sound so it's something to pay attention to now the past tense of go is went went i went to the bookstore went let's just do this part end end notice my lips are not stretched they're nice and loose and and i'm not doing any big mouth movements with this everything's relaxing kind of small now i can add the w went i went to the bookstore now the so we've talked about the past tense went now let's talk about the past participle the past participle of go is gone so the vowel changes gone go gone he is gone on it rhymes with sounds more like on on gone okay i have gone to bed i went to bed i go to bed so these all have the same meaning the difference is we're using different tenses and the words are slightly different but they are all forms of the word go so we've covered seven of the most common verbs in english in their pronunciations let's look at the last three we are almost finished so the eighth most common word in or most common verb sorry in english is no i know what do you notice about the k here do we pronounce it do we say no no the k is actually silent we don't pronounce the k we need it there when we spell it but not when we pronounce this word so if i'm talking about i know you know we know they know the pronunciation is just like the word no okay so i know we know they know so it's easier i think to pronounce in some of the other words we've been looking at now when we are talking about he or she we need to add this s here so we would say he knows she knows what do you notice about the s sound does it sound like a z or like a s is it a z sound or an s sound at the end nose nose it's a little bit of a zed sound okay um so we've covered the present tense if we're talking about the past again like last week last month in 1996 the past we would use the word new new so again the k is silent you'll notice that the letter for the vowel in the middle is different it's now an e and the pronunciation is different we have no new oo so it has that ooh sound in it so let's just start by saying and now let's add the n new new you might also know this word new like old and new same pronunciation now when we're talking about the past participle or the third part of the verb or the verb we use when we have have or had in front of it we use this known known so let's just start with the ending first own so we have that o sound in it own and then we can add the n non and again the k is silent so we have no new and known the ninth most common word is take take now take rhymes with the word cake or make so it's the same verb sound a it has that a sound in it like the letter a or like e h a take i take you take we take notice they all have the same pronunciation now when we're talking about he or she we have to add the s now does this s sound like a z sound or a s sound is it a z sound or an s sound listen carefully takes takes it's actually a s sound or an s sound so we're not going to add a z here it sounds like an s takes he takes she takes and that can be really challenging for students to pronounce because you have a k and an s sound together so when we pronounce the ks our tongue is doing a lot of work so if this takes you some time to learn that's okay because it is a very difficult sound to make now when we're talking about the past tense of take we say the word took yesterday i took the bus took book now the vowel here sounds like the vowel sound in book okay so it's a a shorter vowel so i want you to repeat after me let's just start with the vowel sound book book now let's add the t took i took the bus took so we've talked about the past tense now let's talk about the past participle the third form of the verb taken taken there's a famous movie with i think um liam neeson called taken so notice again the vowel here sounds like a k and then the e n sounds like in taken what part am i saying louder and longer like a lot of our verbs the first part is pronounced louder and longer taken all right so guess what guys we are on number 10 we have made it we have learned so many different words and their pronunciations today so just let's do the last one and then we can celebrate the 10th most common word verb i don't know why i keep making the same mistake but the tenth most common verb is come come um come to my house come so notice how the verb income sounds um it actually sounds like um come now what do you know and the c you'll notice is pronounced like a or a k sound come i come uh we come now when we're talking about he or she um he comes home she comes home notice the s does it sound like a z sound or an s sound comes comes it's actually a z sound a little bit of a z sound it's really hard for students to notice the s or z difference because it's at the very end and when we speak and pronounce things usually the vowel is so loud that some of these other parts are said kind of quietly so if you're not hearing the difference between the zed sound or the s sound that's okay it's hard to hear the difference but this sounds more like a zed than a s now if we're talking about the past tense we change the vowel to an a and we can say came so notice i have the a sound in the vowel came and if we're talking about the past participle i have or you have come again this is the same pronunciation as our present word come come came come and there you have it these are the most common verbs you will hear in english they're all very important and they're all irregular so if you're going to focus on learning pronunciation i would recommend starting with these 10 verbs they're very important um one thing you'll notice is the vowels change a lot or the pronunciation of the vowels and so this is something you're going to really want to pay attention to how do we pronounce the vowels in these different words so thank you so much for watching um i really appreciate it you can come visit my website at www.teacheremma.com there you can find some free resources as well as you can subscribe if you're interested in getting more english resources if you want to practice what we've learned here more you can come visit our website at www.invid.com and there you will actually find a quiz where you can practice everything you just learned you can also subscribe to my youtube channel don't forget to ring the bell that will give you notifications when new videos come out so thank you so much for watching and until next time take care

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Length: 35min 44sec (2144 seconds)

Published: Sun May 09 2021