Drink is the present – I like to drink coffee. Drank is the simple past – I drank coffee yesterday. Drunk is the past participle, used for the present perfect and past perfect – I have never drunk coffee, I had never drunk coffee.

For the irregular verbs shrink and sink, the simple past tense is “He shrank the material and sank the boat.” The past participle is the form of the verb used in the present perfect tense, which shows action completed at the time of speaking: “He has shrunk and has sunk.” Thus, the natural progression is shrink-shrank- …

Shrink verb forms

These were the recommended American forms: “shrink” as the present tense; “shrank” or “shrunk” as the past tense; “shrunk” or “shrunken” as the past participle (the form used in perfect tenses, requiring an auxiliary like “have” or “had”).

Generally, shrank is the simple past tense form of “shrink” like in “I shrank the shirt in the wash.” Shrunk is the past participle being paired with “have” as in “I have shrunk the jeans.” There are rarer examples of shrinked and shrunken in literature but not enough to support those usages as standard.

present tense

The past tense of drive is drove or drave (archaic). The third-person singular simple present indicative form of drive is drives. The present participle of drive is driving. The past participle of drive is driven or druv (dialectal).

Conjugation of verb ‘Drive’