Past simple and past participle
spring
Spring is an irregular verb: its past simple is sprang and its past participle is sprung.
- Base form
- spring
- Past simple
- sprang
- Past participle
- sprung
- Definition
- Move or jump suddenly or rapidly upward or forward.
- Example
- “I sprang out of bed.”
- CEFR level
- C2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.