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Spanish Verbs
How Spanish verbs work: the tenses, irregular and stem-changing verbs, ser and estar, reflexive verbs and the subjunctive, with audio and practice.
A2 Verbs The conditional
The Spanish conditional tense is how you say would: hablaría, I would speak. It’s also the tense that turns an order into a request. Picture yourself at the door of a busy restaura
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs The future tense
A2 Verbs The future tense
The Spanish future tense is the easiest tense to build: you keep the whole infinitive and add one ending, hablaré, comeré, viviré. Nothing to drop, no vowel to swap, and the same s
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs -IR verbs
A1 Verbs -IR verbs
Spanish -ir verbs, like vivir (to live), use the same endings as -er verbs almost everywhere, and you can hear the difference in just one everyday word: comemos (we eat) but vivimo
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs The present perfect
A2 Verbs The present perfect
The Spanish present perfect (he hablado, I have spoken) is built the same way in every country, but it isn’t used the same way in every country. The recipe never changes: haber plu
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Reflexive verbs
A2 Verbs Reflexive verbs
Spanish reflexive verbs are the ones where the action comes back to the person doing it: me lavo is “I wash (myself),” and lavo el carro is “I wash the car.” Same verb, different t
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs -AR verbs
A1 Verbs -AR verbs
An -ar Spanish verb is any verb whose infinitive ends in -ar, like hablar (to speak), and 472 of the 710 verbs in our Spanish conjugator belong to this group. That’s two out of thr
Oct 23, 2026
A2 Verbs Car, gar, zar verbs
If you’ve ever written buscé or empezé on a quiz and gotten it back circled in red, you’ve met the car, gar, zar rule the hard way. Verbs ending in -car, -gar and -zar change one l
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Es vs está vs esta
A1 Verbs Es vs está vs esta
Es vs está comes down to one sentence: Esta casa es grande y está limpia, “This house is big and it’s clean.” Both es and está mean “is.” Es comes from the verb ser and says what s
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Gustar and verbs like it
A2 Verbs Gustar and verbs like it
Gustar and verbs like gustar work backwards compared to English. Me gusta el café doesn’t really say “I like coffee.” Word for word, it says “coffee pleases me”: the coffee is the
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs The imperfect
A2 Verbs The imperfect
When English says used to or was doing, you’re usually looking at the imperfect: Spanish keeps one past tense for habits, descriptions and the background of a story. “I used to tal
Oct 23, 2026