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Past participle - irregular verbs

Irregular verbs form their past participles by using a verb stem unique to each verb, according to the following pattern:

ge + verb stem + en

Wir haben den Film nicht gesehen.
Du bist sehr schnell gelaufen.
We haven't seen the film.
You ran very fast.

If the verb begins with an unaccented syllable the ge- prefix is not used.

Kurt hat gestern einen Brief bekommen.
Kurt received a letter yesterday.

The past participle forms for specific irregular verbs may be found in the list of principal parts of verbs.