Past simple and past participle
steal
Steal is an irregular verb: its past simple is stole and its past participle is stolen.
- Base form
- steal
- Past simple
- stole
- Past participle
- stolen
- Definition
- Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
- Example
- “Thieves stole her bicycle.”
- CEFR level
- A2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.