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Hi everyone.
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I hope you are doing well.
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In today's short lesson, we're going to look at 12 irregular verbs that you as a lawyer should know.
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Music Welcome back to my Study Legal English YouTube channel.
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I'm Louise, and I'm here to help you improve your legal English.
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So let's get started.
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Arise is an irregular verb that you should know.
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The conjugations are arise, arose, arisen.
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It's a common verb used by lawyers, and it means to emerge or come into existence.
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An example sentence is, a dispute has arisen regarding the interpretation of the clause.
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Bind is an irregular verb used a lot by lawyers.
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The conjugations are bind, bound, and bound.
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It means to tie or to obligate, and it's often used in the passive voice as in to be bound, meaning to be legally obligated to follow something.
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An example sentence is, the parties are bound by the contract.
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The parties must follow the contract.
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Break is an irregular verb, used a lot in legal English.
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The conjugations are break, broke, broken.
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It is often used in legal English to mean to violate a rule.
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It collocates with law, as in, to break the law.
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An example sentence is, the defendant broke the law by driving at 50 kilometers per hour in a 30 kilometers per hour zone.
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Bring is an irregular verb used a lot by lawyers.
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The conjugations are bring, brought, and brought.
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In legal English it's used to mean to carry or cause something to happen, especially in the collocation with to bring proceedings, which means to start legal proceedings in the civil court.
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An example sentence is, the claimant brought proceedings against the defendant.
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Find is an irregular verb, used a lot in legal English.
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The conjugations are find, found, and found.
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In legal English it is used of course to mean discover something, but it's especially used when referring to court decisions.
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For example, we say that the court found in favour of the defendant when the defendant won the case, or the court found against the defendant when the defendant lost the case.
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We can also talk about the court or the jury found the defendant guilty or not guilty.
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So an example sentence is the court found the defendant guilty.
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Plead is another irregular verb used a lot by lawyers.
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The conjugations are plead, pled/plead or pleaded, and pled/plead/ pleaded in the past participle.
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Plead is used in the US to mean when a lawyer states his or her case in court.
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It was also used historically in England, however, since 1998, we tend to use, to state one's case instead.
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However, in criminal law plead collocates with guilty or not guilty, meaning that the defendant either admits or denies guilt.
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An example sentence is, the defendant pleaded guilty to the charges.
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Prove can be an irregular verb.
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The conjugations are prove, proved in the past simple, and the past participant can be proven or proved.
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It means to establish the truth, what is real through evidence to prove that something is true.
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An example sentence is, the authorities proved that the companies had formed a cartel to fix prices, contrary to competition law.
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Seek is an irregular verb used a lot by lawyers.
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The conjugations are seek, sought, sought.
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It means to obtain or achieve something or to look for something.
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It's often used when talking about what a client wants to achieve, when faced with a dispute.
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For example, they are seeking damages, seeking compensation, seeking redress, seeking a remedy.
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An example sentence is the claimant sought damages for breach of contract.
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Swear is an irregular verb used a lot by lawyers.
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The conjugations are swear, swore, and sworn.
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It means to make a very serious promise.
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For example, in court you swear an oath before giving evidence.
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An example sentence is, the witness swore an oath before giving evidence in the trial.
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In other words, they promised to tell the truth.
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Undertake is an irregular verb used a lot in legal English.
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The conjugations are to undertake, undertook, and undertaken.
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It means to commit to or assume responsibility for something.
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An example sentence is, the company undertook to provide the services within the agreed timeframe.
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Win is an irregular verb, I hope you're going to be using a lot as a lawyer.
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The conjugations are win, won, won.
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And it means to achieve victory or success, especially when we're talking about winning a court case.
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An example sentence is, the lawyer won the case for his client, meaning the client went to court, in legal proceedings, either civil or criminal, and they won.
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The court ruled in their favour.
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Withdraw is an irregular verb used a lot in legal English.
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The conjugations are withdraw, withdrew, and withdrawn.
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It means to remove or take back something.
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It collocates with money, as in you withdraw money from a bank or ATM.
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But you can withdraw many things.
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For example, the claimant withdrew the application before the hearing.
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Meaning that the claimant removed their court application and decided to not go ahead with the legal proceedings.
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So that brings us to the end of today's lesson.
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I hope you learned something new.
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I hope you found it useful.
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I hope you're going to be using some of these irregular verbs very accurately now.
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本影片的口語學習目標
本影片聚焦法律英語中高頻不規則動詞，幫助學習者突破專業場景下的口語表達瓶頸。通過掌握這些動詞的正確變位和用法，你能在法律對話、案例分析或雅思口語練習中更精準地傳達意思，提升專業英語的流利度。無論是模擬法庭辯論還是描述法律事件，這些動詞都是構建流暢表達的關鍵，助你實現從“能說”到“會說”的跨越。
實用短語庫
- “a dispute has arisen”（出現爭議）
- “be bound by the contract”（受合同約束）
- “break the law”（違法）
- “bring proceedings against”（對…提起訴訟）
- “the court found the defendant guilty”（法院判定被告有罪）
- “pleaded guilty to the charges”（對指控認罪）
- “sought damages for breach of contract”（因違約索賠）
這些短語不僅適用於法律場景，稍加變通也能用於日常表達，是提升口語實用性的“乾貨”。
攻克發音與節奏難點
影片中的不規則動詞變位多樣，如“arise-arose-arisen”“bind-bound-bound”等，容易混淆。通過shadow speak練習（即跟讀模仿），你能強化對這些變位的記憶，同時糾正發音。比如“pleaded”的兩種發音（/ˈpliːdɪd/或/ˈplɛdɪd/）、“proven”與“proved”的語調差異，都需要仔細模仿。堅持shadow speech訓練，能讓你在說英語時更自然地把握節奏，避免因動詞變位錯誤或發音不準影響表達。此外，結合法律場景的例句練習，還能提升你在雅思口語中描述複雜話題的能力，讓回答更具邏輯性和專業性。
記住，每天花10分鐘進行shadowing練習，專注於這些動詞的發音和用法，你的英語發音和口語流暢度一定會穩步提升！
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。