drink
Base form
drink
/drɪŋk/
Past simple
drank
/dræŋk/
Past participle
drunk
/drʌŋk/
MeaningA1
to take liquid into your mouth and swallow it
to drink like a fish
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1What would you like to drink with your dinner?
- Negative · Form 1Don’t drink the water from the tap in the old cottage.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday I drank four cups of coffee before lunch.
- Past simple · Form 2At the wedding last weekend the guests drank all the champagne.
- Present perfect · Form 3Have you drunk enough water today in this heat?
- Passive · Form 3Most of the milk in the fridge was drunk before Sunday.
Watch out
Learners avoid drunk because it also means ‘after too much alcohol’, but I’ve drunk two coffees is right and I’ve drank is not.
Same pattern
A — B — CAll three forms differ
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