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    4 months ago

    “Drank” and “drunk” are forms of the irregular verb “drink”. “Drank” is the past tense form, as in “I drank two glasses of water last night.” “Drunk” is the past participle, as in “She had drunk three cups of coffee before 9 a.m.”

    You’re asking “have you…”, so wouldn’t it be “have you drunk”, not “have you drank”?

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      The fact that people so often use the past tense instead of the past participle is perhaps evidence that it doesn’t really matter, descriptively?

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        Once you’re fluent you can use colloquialisms, sure, so yeah, descriptively it doesn’t matter really, but most people learning a language sort of need the rules so they can understand once those rules start getting bent or broken. Imo.

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        I think that it’s a sign that English could stand to regularize further.

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        Delirium and confusion for sure can be, so I think that’d be counted under one or the other, yes.