subject: How Many Irregular Spanish Verbs Are There? [print this page] Forget what you may have heard about there being only twenty five irregular Spanish verbs. There are well in excess of two thousand and these follow over 70 different patterns of irregularity, so the necessity for a good Spanish verb conjugator to help you in your studies cannot be stressed enough.
Many of these 2000 verbs are quite obscure and it is unlikely you will use many of them in every day conversation but, to say there are only 25 irregular Spanish verbs is ridiculously off the mark.
Over 2000 irregular Spanish verbs will mean the use of a good Spanish verb conjugator is an absolute necessity as it will make the task of finding the right information a whole lot quicker, and a whole lot easier.
A good Spanish verb conjugator should list every verb you could ever need and cover all derivatives of each tense.
In Spanish there are three regular verb types, and these are referred to as '-ar verbs', '-ir verbs' and '-er verbs', so called because of the endings they each have.
The endings are basically the equivalent of the English 'to', and the preceding part is commonly referred to as the stem of the verb. For example in English, when we refer to a verb we precede the verb with 'to', but in general use the 'to' is dropped when the verb is attached to a pronoun; 'to speak' becomes he speaks and 'to do' becomes he does; etc, etc
In Spanish it is no different; when the verb is not related to a pronoun it takes on its original full form, but if attached to a pronoun its ending changes. For example; hablar (to speak) changes to hablo (I speak), hablas (you speak), habla (he, she, or you [polite] speaks) etc, etc.
Regular Spanish verbs become relatively easy to conjugate as they all follow the same patterns and rules of conjugation, hence why they are referred to as regular, but irregular Spanish verbs are far more difficult to master and the use of an excellent Spanish verb conjugator really makes a huge difference to the ease and the speed at which you will learn them.
by: Daniel Major
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