Spanish Verb Conjugator: Do You Need One?

Spanish Verb Conjugator

A Spanish verb conjugator should be high up on the list of training tools a student requires when they start to learn Spanish, in fact many consider it to be the ONE tool that they couldn’t do without! Why? It is simply because the modern Spanish verb conjugator has not only made learning difficult verb conjugations much easier and quicker to do but, more importantly, has improved the success rates for students completing Spanish courses.

Learning Spanish verb conjugation has always been a major stumbling block for a lot of individuals who harbour dreams of speaking Spanish fluently, so much so that many of them fail to complete their studies…modern day verb trainers, or conjugators, can definitely help with this problem.

The Spanish Verb Conjugator Trainer – The Nemesis of Irregular Spanish Verb Conjugation

All students of the Spanish language will recognize that learning, indeed the complete mastery of, the conjugations of irregular Spanish verbs is probably the single most difficult area of their studies yet it was an area of language study that was pretty much left unimproved for years. For many years the only way to learn the dreaded Spanish verb conjugations was to use the good old fashioned and trusted verb conjugation book; with the help of these books and endless hours of memorization and repetition Spanish verb conjugation was indeed mastered…eventually!

Unfortunately, the endless hours of learning when using the verb tables in these books was never the most enjoyable task to undertake and it doesn’t take long before the tedium of this type of studying produces casualties in the form of students giving up on any hope they once had of being able to speak Spanish confidently.

Although Spanish verb conjugation books are still a required tool in the bag of all students, they are no longer considered to be the best way to learn Spanish verb conjugation and are better suited for use as a resource tool. The modern online Spanish verb conjugator is an absolute ‘must have‘ for students nowadays as it can slash the time it previously took to learn Spanish verbs and make the task of learning them considerably more enjoyable.

Forget the many free conjugators that you will find online, they are little more than computerized versions of those books I have previously mentioned, what is required to achieve excellent results is a high quality, state-of-the-art, Spanish verb conjugator training program and if you are truly serious about getting the best results you can possibly achieve then you have got to consider purchasing the Verbarrator Spanish verb trainer.

I personally own a copy of this software program and have provided an honest review of it on my main site that you can read here, VERBARRATOR REVIEW, it gives a detailed account of the program, what it contains, it’s history and development.

I do not hide the fact that I promote and fully endorse the Verbarrator verb trainer and I can also tell you that you can buy it directly from the developers and elsewhere online…what I will offer though to anyone who does wisely decide that the Verbarrator is a tool they definitely need to complete their Spanish studies successfully is a copy of each of my Spanish verb conjugation books: ‘2000+ Spanish Irregular Verbs 2nd Edition‘ and ‘50 Most Commonly Used Regular Spanish Verbs’, whenever a purchase is made through any of the links found on my site, including those within the banners above and below this post.

For more information about Spanish verbs why not visit my previous blogposts; El verbo gustar and Ver conjugation

The Spanish Subjunctive is a strange concept to English speakers as it is very rarely used in the English language, in Spanish however it is used frequently. The subjunctive is a verb mood that is typically used to express a wish, emotion, opinion, judgement, possibility or something that has not yet happened and if you need further information regarding an explanation of how the subjunctive is used in Spanish there is a link at the end of this post that will help you.

This post, however, will provide the irregular conjugation of each of the tenses of the much used Spanish verb Ser in the subjunctive.

Subjunctive Present Tense (Subjuntivo presente)

• yo sea
• tú seas
• él/ella sea
• usted sea
• nosotros/as seamos
• vosotos/as seáis
• ellos/ellas sean
• ustedes sean

Subjunctive Imperfect Tense (Subjuntivo pretérito imperfecto)

• yo fuera/fuese
• tú fuera/fueses
• él/ella fuera/fuese
• usted fuera/fuese
• nosotros/as fuéramos/fuésemos
• vosotos/as fuerais/fuereis
• ellos/ellas fueran/fuesen
• ustedes fueran/fuesen

Just to add to any confusion you may be suffering from, it should be noted that there are two different set of endings for the imperfect tense in the subjunctive both mean the same and either can be used!

Subjunctive Future Tense (Subjuntivo futuro imperfecto)

• yo fuere
• tú fueres
• él/ella fuere
• usted fuere
• nosotros/as fuéremos
• vosotos/as fuereis
• ellos/ellas fueren
• ustedes fueren

Here are some links to other ‘ser‘ related posts:

• Present Tense Conjugation of Ser
• Imperfect Tense Conjugation of Ser
• Ser vs Estar
• Preterite Tense of Ser
• Spanish Subjunctive

…and if you need a full and complete Ser Conjugation chart one can be downloaded and printed from the Ser conjugation page on the main site.

However, if you are one of the many students of Spanish who need more help with learning Spanish verbs, I will suggest that you read my verbarrator review which is, in my opinion, the best verb training program currently available for the study of Spanish verb conjugation…I also offer a copy of my conjugation book ‘2000+ Spanish Irregular Verbs‘ completely free if you purchase verbarrator through one of many links throughout my site, which is a promotion you will not find anywhere else online!

Understanding all aspects of Ser conjugation is extremely important to anyone who is learning Spanish and arguably the most important of the ser conjugation patterns to master is that of the indicative present tense.

However, before you even learn the conjugation of the irregular Spanish verb ser it is a requirement to understand how it is used, or even if ser is the verb you should even be using! This is because, unlike as in English, Spanish has two verbs that that are used that mean ‘to be‘, and these are, as you probably know already…ser and estar.

The rules surrounding the use of ser and estar may seem complicated at first but do become much easier after continuous and regular use, thus making the ser vs estar question a distant memory very quickly for the majority of students. Unfortunately though, before this can happen, a period of study is required and in order to master this area of Spanish efficiently you will need concise and accurate information that relates to the differences between these two Spanish verbs and also the conjugation of the verb ser… all this information can be found here, on this blog, and on the main website of irregularspanishverbs.com and all the links you will need are listed below:

Present Tense Conjugation of Ser
Imperfect Tense Conjugation of Ser
Ser vs Estar
Preterite Tense of Ser
Ser Subjunctive Conjugation

…and you can visit this link for a full and complete Ser Conjugation chart that can be downloaded and printed.
For those of you who need more help with learning Spanish verbs, may I suggest reading my review of the verbarrator verb training software which is, in my opinion, the best program currently available for studying, and mastering, the complexities of Spanish verb conjugation…I also offer a copy of my conjugation book ‘2000+ Spanish Irregular Verbs‘ completely free when purchasing the verbarrator through my site, a promotion found nowhere else online!

Spanish Future Tense

The Spanish future tense is one of those rare tenses in Spanish that is reasonably uniformed in its conjugation as there are very few verbs that are actually irregular. Even more surprising is that those verbs that are irregular, are not too difficult to learn as they each follow a distinctive pattern…more about that shortly however, as we will first take a look at how regular verbs are conjugated in the future tense.

Unlike many of the other Spanish tenses, all verbs, whether they are -ar, -er or -ir verbs, use the same endings. These endings are attached to the infinitive of each verb.

Hablar – ‘to speak‘

• hablaré I will speak
• hablarás you will speak
• hablará he, she or it will speak
• hablaremos we will speak
• hablaréis you will speak (plural)
• hablarán they will speak

This conjugation applies to all verbs in Spanish as already mentioned but there are a small number of irregular verbs that are used frequently. All of these irregular verbs use the same endings as used for regular verbs and their irregularities are stem changes.

The irregular verbs in the future tense, accompanied by the irregular stem change are:

• caber ‘to fit‘ or ‘to be possible‘ -       caber becomes cabr
• decir ‘to say‘ -                                        decir becomes dir
• haber ‘to have‘ -                                     haber becomes habr
• hacer ‘to do‘ or ‘to make‘ -                 hacer becomes har
• poder ‘to be able to‘ or ‘can‘ -           poder becomes podre
• poner ‘to put‘ -                                        poner becomes pondr
• querer ‘to want‘ -                                   querer becomes querr
• saber ‘to know‘ -                                   saber becomes sabr
• salir ‘to leave‘ -                                    salir becomes saldr
• tener ‘to have‘ -                                     tener becomes tendr
• valer ‘to cost‘ -                                       valer becomes valdr
• venir ‘to come‘ -                                    venir becomes vendr

Remember that the future tense for irregular verbs is formed exactly as for regular verbs and that the irregular stems are used instead of the full infinitive.

If you need help with conjugating Spanish verbs check out my Verbarrator Review here. Or why not read my previous post called ‘Help Needed? Spanish verbs for dummies‘

How to Conjugate in Spanish

Learning how to conjugate in Spanish is without doubt the most difficult part of learning the Spanish language. Spanish has an extremely high number of irregular verbs, some more irregular than others, and as well as having to learn new conjugations for all of the common tenses there is also the subjunctive to learn, which is rarely used in English but extremely common in Spanish.

When considering all of the factors spelled out above, it is little wonder that many students give up all because they fail to master Spanish verb conjugation.

However, there is a new software program that has been a resounding success in helping struggling students get past their personal stumbling blocks and it does it quickly too!

The name of that program is Verbarrator and it not only provides excellent verb training but it is enjoyable to use and speeds up the learning process! More about the Verbarrator later…back to learning to conjugate in Spanish!

The simplest way to explain how to conjugate in Spanish is to show Spanish conjugation in it’s simplest form which is a regular verb in the present tense. If you are not aware already, you need to know that there are three different verb groups in Spanish, and those groups are comprised of verbs that end in ar, er and ir.

Here is the basic present tense conjugation for a verb from each of the regular verb groups.

• Trabajar – to work
• I work – trabajo
• You work – trabajas
• he/she works – trabaja
• we work – trabajamos
• you all work – trabajaís
• they work – trabajan

• Abrir – to open
• I open – abro
• You open – abres
• he/she open – abre
• we open – abrimos
• you all open – abrís
• they open – abren

• Aprender – to learn
• I learn – aprendo
• You learn – aprendes
• he/she learn – aprende
• we learn – aprendemos
• you all learn – aprendéis
• they learn – aprenden

Please remember, these are just the basics, for more on verb conjugation why not visit our main site irregular spanish verbs and sign up for the free verb conjugation book that includes full conjugation sheets for 50 of the most commonly used regular verbs or check out our verbarrator review, the newest verb training software online.