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Originally Posted by Fugue
everything I read online says the plain past is 覚えった rather than 覚えた.
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You must not be reading anything written by a native speaker, then. It's most definitely おぼえた.
Also, the distinction is not るvsう, and I've actually never heard anyone use this as the classification. Do yourself a favor and start calling them いちだん (all stems end with the same vowel) and ごだん (each of the five vowels are used in various verb stems) verbs. Or, alternatively "eru/iru vs u" verbs. Except this still isn't a good term since 帰る ends with "eru" but is not conjugated like 食べる, but rather like とる.
Godan:
stem of 飲む is "nom" plus one of the five vowels:
飲ま-ない（あ）
飲み-ます（い）
飲む（う）
飲め-る（え）
飲も-う（お）
Ichidan:
stem of 食べる is "tabe" always:
食べ-ない（え）
食べ-ます（え）
食べ-る（え）
食べ-られる（え）
食べ-よう（え）