See (irregular verb)

'To see' is an irregular verb. Its forms are given here:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
see	saw	seen	Also foresee, oversee

This is one of the "the 250 or so irregular verbs" listed in Quirk 1985. The list "contains most of the irregular verbs in present-day English ... but is not meant to be exhaustive, particularly with regard to derivative verbs." AWE has copied most of the entries in that list. The verb 'to see' belongs to Quirk's Class 4 B g.

Note a coincidental use of see and saw:

A seesaw (or see-saw) is nowadays a child's game, consisting of a long plank balanced evenly on a central pivot. One (or sometimes more) child sits at each end, so that a rhythm may be established in which first one, then the other, rises or falls. The word seesaw (or see-saw) can be used figuratively as a metaphor for any repetitive 'to-and-fro' movement, or as an adjective to describe such movements, as when military writers describe the Second World War campaigns in North Africa, when first the Germans, then the British, the Germans again and finally the British travelled thousands of miles eastwards, or westwards, across the coastal deserts as "see-saw campaigns", or the passing of a weaver's shuttle on a loom. This is most commonly heard, perhaps, in the nursery rhyme "See-saw, Margery Daw", which, OED suggests, may well use a working chant by sawyers in the days when most timber was divided into planks by the manual labour of a pair of sawyers working at opposite ends of a two-handed saw.