The 96 most used verbs in English

accept

allow

ask

believe

borrow

break/broke/broken

bring/brought/brought

buy/bought/bought

can/could

be able

cancel

change

clean

comb

complain

cough

count

cut/cut/cut

dance

draw/drew/drawn

drink/drank/drunk

drive/drove/driven

eat/ate/eaten

explain

fall/fell/fell

fill

find/found/found

finish

fit

fix

fly/flew/flown

forget/forgot/forgotten

give/gave/given

go/went/gone (or been)

have/had/had

hear/heard/heard

hurt/hurt/hurt

know/knew/known

learn/learnt/learnt

leave/left/left

listen

live

look

lose/lost/lost

make/made/made

do/did/done

need

open

close

shut/shut/shut

organise

pay/paid/paid

play

put/put/put

rain

read/read/read

reply

run/ran/ran

say/said/said

see/saw/seen

sell/sold/sold

send/sent/sent

sign

sing/sang/sung

sit/sat/sat

sleep/slept/slept

smoke

speak/spoke/spoken

spell/spelt/spelt

spend/spent/spent

stand/stood/stood

start

begin/begun/begun

study

succeed

swim/swam/swum

take/took/taken

talk

teach/taught/taught

tell/told/told

think/thought/thought

translate

travel

try

turn off

turn on

type

understand/understood/understood

use

wait

wake/woke/woken up

want

watch

work

worry

write/wrote/written