Irregular Verbs in Spanish

Content

• Regular and irregular verbs
• Types of irregular verbs
• Examples of irregular verbs
• Other types of verbs

In the Spanish language there are different ways to classify verbs:

• According to the semantic aspect. They are divided into perfective and imperfective verbs.
• According to the syntactic aspect. They are divided into transitive and intransitive verbs, copulative verbs and others.
• According to its conjugation. They are divided into reflective and defective.
• According to its flex. They are divided into regular and irregular.

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• Root and ending of verbs

Regular and irregular verbs

As Spanish is an inflectional language, the conjugated forms of verbs are constructed by inflection of a root, which varies in endings according to the mode and time and according to how it belongs to the first conjugation, with the ending -ar(model verb: love), the second, with an ending -er (model verb: fear), or the third, with the ending -go (model verb: to leave).

In this sense, two types of verbs differ:

• Regular. They have uniform and identical conjugations to that of the model verb. For example: accept, understand, discuss.
• Irregular.Its conjugations depart from that of the model verb by changes in the stem, in the ending or in both parts, in one or more of its verb forms. For example: taste, fall, laugh.

Most of the irregular verbs belong to the second and third conjugations. The irregularity can be reflected in a vowel or consonant alternation.

Completions–Cer or –aer they are representative of this group. Spelling variations (c / z, c / qu, g / gu), phonetic variations (i / y) and displacements of the stressed syllable can occur.

Types of irregular verbs

Eight groups of irregular verbs are recognized depending on the mode (s) in which the irregularities appear:

• Group 1. In some verb tenses, they change the and by i. For example: to size (I measure, measure, let's measure)
• Group 2. In some verb tenses, they change the or byEU. For example: Sound (dream, dream)
• Group number 3. In some verb tenses, they change the and by ie. For example: understand (I understand, you understand)
• Group 4. In some verb tenses, consonants change or add. For example: leave (I go out, let's go out), grow (grow up, grow up), reduce (I reduced, you reduced)
• Team 5. In some verb tenses, they change the and wave i by d. For example: come (I will come, you will come)
• Group 6. In the first person singular present, they add a Y. For example: be (I am)
• Group 7. In some verb tenses, they lose a consonant and a vowel. For example: do (I will, instead of "I will")
• Group 8. In some verb tenses, they change ui by Y. For example: run away (I run, let's run, run)

A special case are the verbs defective or incomplete, which are the ones do not have a complete conjugation since they lack some personal forms or some verb tense, such as to concern, babble, concern, soler, lie or be born.

Some grammarians consider them special cases of irregular verbs.

Examples of irregular verbs

Here are 100 irregular verbs as an example:

It can serve you: Examples of Regular Verbs

Other types of verbs