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🟩 1st Conjugation Regular Verbs (-aigh, -igh, -áil, -eáil, -il, etc.)

Usually monosyllabic or slender/broad-stemmed verbs, typically taking a one-syllable stem in past/present/future tenses.

• bris – to break                                                        glan – to clean                 

• dún – to close                                                        oscail – to open           

• cuir – to put                                                              ól– to drink                   

• foghlaim – to learn                                                   caill – to lose               

• fan – to wait                                                        ceannaigh – to buy

• déanamh – to do/make (Note: technically irregular in some forms)           

• imir – to play (a sport)                                            léigh – to read             

• smaoinigh – to think                                           cuardaigh – to search

• freagair – to answer     gortaigh – to hurt                toiligh – to agree             

• múch – to extinguish

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🟨 2nd Conjugation Regular Verbs (-igh, usually disyllabic)

Usually have two syllables in the root and take -ím, -íonn, -íomar endings in the present, for example.

• inis – to tell                                                         críochnaigh – to finish

• osclaigh – to open                                                 iompaigh – to turn

• caith – to throw/spend/wear                                   bailigh – to collect

• foghlaimigh – to learn                                         musclaigh – to awaken

• imigh – to leave/go away                                         tosaigh – to begin

• fiosraigh – to inquire                                         brisigh – to break (a variant)

• rangaigh – to classify                                        cuimhnigh – to remember         

• gearr – to cut                                                            tóg – to take/lift

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🟦 Verbs with -áil or -eáil endings (sometimes from English/French)

These are also regular and follow second conjugation patterns.

• déanáil – to do (rare, replaced by déan)                          iomparáil – to carry

• ceiliúráil – to celebrate                                                       sábháil – to save

• scanrú – to scare                                                                péinteáil – to paint

• taípeáil – to type                                             tiomáint – to drive (often treated as a noun + verb "to do driving")

• agallamháil – to interview                                             rinceáil – to dance (cf. rince = a dance)

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