SPANISH VERB LIST - Conquer the Verb Families

This SPANISH VERB LIST groups various Spanish verbs according their family of endings. A few minutes a day for 30 days and you can conquer various families of verb endings and conjugations with our powerful verb tables.

The Verb Tables are grouped by month and one automatically appears on our DAILY SPANISH LESSON page.

So for the months of January and February you will cover a particular family of verbs - the AR verbs. March covers another family - the ER verbs, April is IR. The next months follow the AR-ER-IR, so that each month you will look at a new family, with each group rotating through the AR-ER-IR groupings.

Reciting each verb table aloud will take about three or four minutes. Unlike most verb tables, these ones will allow you to build your knowledge with more depth, as you can learn them ROW by ROW (tense by tense), as well as COLUMN by COLUMN (pronoun by pronoun).

These verbs are the twenty most common forms of conjugation of Spanish verbs as based on the Bescherelle of Spanish Verbs.

Verbs with Spelling Changes

You will notice that some of the verbs just have spelling changes. These are usually conjugated in a regular way, but to retain the pronunciation in accordance with the various rules, the spelling has to change. For example for verbs ending GAR, like pagar.

If the yo preterit was to follow the conjugation rules, 'I paid' would be yo pagé.
But if written that way, it would be pronounced yo pajé.
To preserve the pronunciation with a 'hard g' (like g in the English word 'go'), the letter 'u' is added after the 'g' to make it spelt yo pagué.
This also occurs the with the other conjugations that are formed off the first person present indicative - yo pagué - like the:
- subjunctives: que yo pague, que tú pagues ... pague, paguemos, paguéis, paguen
- imperatives: pague! paguemos! paguen!

SPANISH VERB LIST of VERB TABLES
Month	VERB FAMILY	Model Verb	Change	Spelling Change	Number of Verbs like this in Spanish (approx)
January	Regular AR verbs	cortar	- -	-	}
February	Regular AR verbs	aceptar	- -	-	}6500
March	Regular ER verbs	deber	- -	-	110
April	Regular IR verbs	vivir	- -	-	250
May	ZAR verbs	cazar	z changes to c before e in yo preterit and in all persons of present subjunctive, and the forms derived from it. This is done to preserve pronunciation.	-	700+
June	CER verbs	parecer	c to zc	-	230
July	UIR verbs	influir	i to y before o or e	-	50
July	IR verbs	sentir	e to ie or i	-	40
August	CAR verbs	sacar	c to gu before e	-	550
August	GAR verbs	pagar	spelling change, adding u after g before e	√	320
September	DER verbs (mainly)	defender	e to ie (mainly DER verbs plus cerner)	-	30
September	PONER verbs	poner	o to u, g to ng before o or a,	-	30
September	GER verbs	coger	g changes to j for yo present (yo cojo) and therefore all persons of the present subjunctive and some of the imperatives	-	16
September	VER verbs	mover	o to ue	-	13
October	GIR verbs	dirigir	g changes to j in the yo present and in subjunctives	-	30
October	IR verbs	pedir	e to i	-	30
October	ÑIR / LLIR verbs	bruñir	spelling change. After LL or ñ and a vowel the letter i is dropped in some tenses	√	25
November	IAR verbs	guiar	spelling change. letter i gets an accent added and becomes í for present tense and present subjunctive for yo, tú, él, ellos.	√	100
November	UAR verbs	actuar	add an accent	√	40
December	SAR verbs	pensar	e to ie	-	130
December	AR verbs	encontrar	o changes to ue	-	120

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Viewing the Full Conjugations of the Verbs in the Spanish Verb List

All the verb tables in this Spanish Lesson List of Verbs appear in the Daily Spanish Lesson page. Each day of the year a new one appears.

You can access any of the individual pages via the links on the page groupings above for each month. The links will take you to a page of more detail of which verbs are listing in that family.

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