Irregular Spanish Verbs

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Irregular Spanish Verbs

The verb tables which follow are designed to assist Spanish learners in memorizing the most common irregular Spanish verbs, and their conjugations with each subject pronoun..

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Present Tense (1)| Present Tense (2)
Past Tense (1) | Past Tense (2)

Spanish - English Subject Pronouns
yo = I	él, ella = he, she
tu = you (informal)	nosotros/as = we (m/f)
usted = you (formal)	ellos, ellas = they (m/f)

(I have omitted the Spanish pronoun, vosotros ('you' plural) so as not to overburden the learner, and because it is generally the least frequently used of the Spanish subject pronouns.)
Note: In Spanish, the subject pronoun is frequently omitted. (The Spanish verb-ending combined with linguistic context identifies the infered subject pronoun.)

How do the verb tables work?

Each empty table cell contains a hidden conjugated Spanish verb which can be revealed by clicking and holding or double-clicking on the lower center of the cell. The hidden conjugations can also be viewed by clicking and holding down the left mouse button on the Spanish infinitive to the left and 'brushing' the cursor horizontally across a table row.
(Depending on which browser you are using, all three reveal options may not be available)

What's an Irreguar Verb?

An irregular verb is one which does not follow standard rules of conjugation in the different verb tenses. The verb "to want" is a regular English verb: present tense=want, past tense=wanted. The English verb "to be" is an irregular English verb, as its past tense is not 'beed, but 'was'. In Spanish, regular verbs follow the same rules of conjugation in all the fourteen (!) Spanish verb tenses.

There are about twenty irregular Spanish verbs. In Spanish as in English some of the most important and most frequently used verbs are irregular. Hence it is necessary to learn how they are conjugated, primarily in the most common verb tenses- the simple present ( English: 'I go' )and the simple past (preterit) (English: 'I went'). Once these irregular Spanish verbs have been memorized, the rest of your Spanish study will be a relative cakewalk.