1000 most frequent words of the English language. main verbs in English

You should fall in love with Basic English, if only because you only need to learn 850 words to learn it. Oddly enough, this amount is quite enough to communicate easily and naturally with a resident of any English-speaking country. Of course, if you need English for the profession of a translator or for reading Wilkie Collins in the original, then welcome to philology or very serious courses. However, if your goal is simply to own international language then welcome to this article!

For the sake of simplicity, 850 words are divided into major groups:

1) objects and phenomena (600 words, of which 400 are general, and 200 are designations of objects);

2) action or movement (100 words);

3) expression of quality (150 words, of which 100 are common and 50 with the opposite meaning).

Particularly encouraging is the fact that out of 850 basic words, 514 have only one syllable! This is not a conservationalist or anything worse for you. Already rubbing your palms in anticipation of the Basic Dictionary? Please.

1. OBJECTS AND PHENOMENA

If we act according to the "from simple to complex" method, then the minimum vocabulary can be learned from picture words. There are 200 of them. You can stick stickers all over the apartment (if the household does not go crazy, taking an apple from the refrigerator with a piece of paper "apple"). Or cut pictures from books. Or download images on the Internet and print them with signatures (by the way, you can flip through them in queues or traffic jams). And here is a ready-made list with pictures on Wikipedia.

1.1. 200 picture words:

It is more convenient and quickest to divide these basic words into 6 groups by meaning: body parts, food, animals, transport, objects, etc. If you study at least 2 groups every day, then in three days you can master the basic vocabulary. The main thing is not to lose your knowledge and consolidate it in practice. Any acquaintance who agrees to become an evil examiner or pretends to be a dunno, who is interested in everything, is suitable for this.

U:
umbrella - umbrella

1.2. 400 common words:

To make this sequence easier to learn, let's not reinvent the wheel. You can, of course, torment yourself and divide all words into semantic groups, but there will be so many of them that some will contain only one or two terms. Easier to learn alphabetically. There are about ten words for each letter. If you lean over a piece of paper for 10 minutes at least three times a day, you can learn at least 3 letters a day. The maximum depends on your goals and desires.

Y:
year - year

2. ACTION AND MOTION (100 words)

This list miraculously includes words that, it would seem, do not fit the concept of "action" at all: pronouns, polite phrases. Well, what did you want? Try asking someone to move without "please let him go northeast for the star."

You can learn alphabetically. And it can be divided into parts of speech: verbs, pronouns, prepositions, etc. Prepositions are easy to remember if you use a schema. Draw a square in the very center on a piece of paper and indicate movement with dots or arrows. For example, the preposition in translates as "in" - put a dot in the square and sign it in. And, for example, out translates as "from" - put an arrow from the square.

3. EXPRESSION OF QUALITY (150 WORDS)

3.1. General (100 words)

This is probably the nicest part of the vocabulary. Without adjectives, the language would be too bland and official. You can learn alphabetically. And you can find images of objects or photographs of people and write on back side whatever you think of them. Feel free to express yourself. The more you use the adjectives from the list, the faster you will learn.

3.2. Opposite (50 words)

The easiest way to quickly master words is to find antonyms. You have already said everything about different people on photos? Change your perspective and use opposite adjectives. Or just write down first the designation of quality from paragraph 3.1., And through a hyphen - the opposite in meaning from paragraph 3.2.

That's all. Congratulations! You have a basic vocabulary. And it will be quite enough for communication. It remains only to learn how to add these same necessary words into sentences. Welcome to grammar!

The verb is the king of the English language. Even the shortest sentence always contains a verb. Conversely, a verb can be used to form a sentence in one word, for example “ Stop!”(“ Stop! ”).

Verbs are sometimes called "action words." This is partly true. Many verbs convey the idea of ​​doing something - for example, “ run"(To run)," fight"(To fight)," do" (make), " work" (work).

But some verbs have the meaning not of action, but of existence, not of “doing”, but of “being”. These are verbs such as “ be" (to be), " exist" (exist), " seem"(To seem)," belong”(To belong).

The subject is attached to the verb as a predicate. So, in the sentence “ Mary speaks English”(“ Mary speaks English ”) Mary- subject, and the verb speaks - predicate.

Thus, we can say that verbs are words that explain what the subject does ( does) or what / what is ( is), and describe:

• action (" John plays football”-“ John plays football ”);
• condition (" Ashley seems kind"-" Ashley seems kind ").

The verbs in English language there is one peculiarity. Most of the words of other parts of speech -, etc. - do not change (although nouns have singular and plural). But almost all verbs change according to grammatical forms... For example, the verb “ to work”(“ To work ”) five forms:

• to work, work, works, worked, working

Note, however, that this is a little compared to languages ​​in which one verb can have 30 or more forms (for example, Hungarian) - if you started learning verbs in, you can breathe a sigh of relief.

100 main verbs in English

Below is a list of the top 100 English verbs... it will be useful to first of all learn exactly these most popular verbs of the English language. The verbs in the table are given in descending order of frequency of use: