Why Are the Most Common Verbs Irregular?

Back when I was learning Portuguese, I often found myself wondering something that most language learners probably wonder at some point: most verbs seem to follow some pattern, but some verbs have some really weird verb conjugations — what’s up with that? What’s more, why is it that the most common verbs are usually the ones with the most weird conjugations? It’s like someone purposefully designed this language to be hard to learn! As it turns out, somebody didn’t design it to be that way. Rather, natural processes designed it so; processes that have been playing out over thousands of years. And we can use data to glimpse those processes in action. <a href="https://medium.com/language-lab/why-are-the-most-common-verbs-irregular-7a4777abbbae">Click Here</a>