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1001 Spanish Verbs

1001 Spanish verbs was a program that you could download to your PC relatively cheaply and it provided the full conjugation for each of those verbs in the 12 most important tenses used in the Spanish language. Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to find this program for the PC nowadays and it now seems to be available for downloads to mobile phones only.

However, the question you should be asking is whether or not you actually need a program, or book, that provides the full conjugation for that number of verbs?

The simple answer to this question is ‘no’ and here is an explanation of why the answer is a negative. As you are no doubt aware, there are many thousands of regular verbs in Spanish, and these verbs fall into three groups. These three groups are comprised of verbs that end in either, -ar, -er or -ir.

Regular verbs are so-called because they follow exactly the same Spanish verb conjugation pattern as other verbs that use the same ending, this means you would only really need a full list of regular verbs and a single full conjugation sheet for each verb group in order to find the necessary form.

The only problem with Spanish, as with many other languages, are the high numbers of irregular Spanish verbs that there are…over 2000 to be precise! This, in itself, is enough to panic a Spanish language student especially as learning the conjugations of irregular Spanish verbs is considered the most difficult task when learning the language.

Two thousand seems an awfully large number of verbs with irregularities to learn and if you had to learn each one it would be, without a doubt, but when you consider first of all, that many of these verbs will be very rarely used, if at all, and secondly that these 2000 plus verbs can be further broken down into 66 or so different types of irregular patterns and the task appears much more doable!

So to recap…3 regular conjugation patterns and 66 irregular conjugation patterns, that is 69 different formations if my calculator is correct which is a long way from the 1001 Spanish verbs in the title. This being the case all you would need are the conjugation patterns for these 69 and lists containing regular -ar,-er and -ir verbs and irregular verbs for each irregularity.

The biggest problem that faces most, if not all, students of Spanish is that of actually learning verbs and how they are conjugated. Having all the verb sheets you need is great but unless you have an effective method of learning them you will still struggle. For years the only way to learn verbs was to recite and recite some more until you had memorized them…very tedious and boring, not to mention time consuming!

Well this has all changed with a revolutionary new software program that not only focuses the mind on specific problem areas but does so without the student ever becoming bored and the results are fast too with many users reporting excellent results. This revolutionary verb training software is called verbarrator and it demotes verb books and other verb programs to being only needed as reference tools.

If you would like to know more about how the verbarrator is revolutionizing verb study check out my detailed and honest review here and should you then decide that the program is exactly what you need and decide to purchase, you would be wise to do so from my site rather than from anywhere else. This is because you will also receive a copy of my book ‘2000+ Spanish Irregular Verbs‘ completely free which normally costs $16! (You can also check out the ‘only slightly biased’ review of this book on my site using the link above!)

For further reading why not read my post about why the Spanish verb haber is the most important verb in the Spanish language.

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Need Help With Learning Spanish Verbs

If you are in urgent need of a helping hand with learning Spanish Verb Conjugation do not be too concerned, you are certainly not alone. Almost every student of Spanish requires assistance at one time or another, the difficulty is choosing which form that help will take!

The obvious choice for many people are self help books, one of the most popular at this time has the same title as this post funnily enough – ‘Spanish Verbs for Dummies’. All self help books aim to do pretty much the same thing, their teachings may differ slightly but they all try to make your transition from Spanish novice to verb master as comfortable as possible.

The problem is that many of these books fail to deal with an individual’s specific problem in most cases and are far to generalized, focusing on the most common and generic problem areas that most students have issues with.

The truth is that all students will never always have the same problem, a verb that one person doesn’t have any trouble with may be the same verb that absolutely infuriates someone else and the same applies to different tenses and moods and this is why self help verb books often fall short.

Individuals, are just that, they are all different and will therefore struggle with different verbs and it is therefore logical to presume that books, although there are some that are really good, are too inflexible for an individual’s needs.

The only method of learning irregular Spanish verbs and verbs in general that offers the flexibility that: 1. enables the student to concentrate his or her studies on their individual problem areas, and 2. increase the speed at which Spanish verbs are mastered and Spanish, as a whole, is learnt, is with the use of a verb training software program.

One verb training program in particular that stands out more than any other, one with which I have had personal experience of using, is the Verbarrator. The Verbarrator program is about a year old yet it has received great plaudits for the way it has helped students, who were previously struggling badly with learning verb conjugation, my wife and children included, and it is well worth reading my review of it here; Verbarrator Review before looking into buying a self help book.

My review contains detailed information about the program and how it benefits the student more so than traditional methods of verb training and also how it can lessen the time taken to learn Spanish.

However, should you still decide that a self help book is your preferred choice there are some good choices below, I will say though that should you, on the other hand, make the wise decision to follow my advice and purchase the verbarrator program, you should buy it from one of the links on this site as I will also be giving you a copy of my verb book; ’2000+ Spanish Irregular Verbs’, completely free which is currently valued at $16.00.

Why not check out my previous post on Irregular Past Tense Spanish Verbs, it’s an informative read!

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Spanish verbs are difficult to learn, or rather learning the conjugation of Spanish verbs is. Difficult or not, the learning of Spanish verbs is unavoidable as they are an integral part of the Spanish language as are verbs to any language. But which verb should we deem the most important in the Spanish language?

Spanish verbs are probably the most difficult and the most complex areas of the Spanish Language. Spanish verbs are split into 3 main groups, those verbs that end in -ar, -er and -ir, each of the verbs in these verb groups has multiple endings to indicate who or what is performing an action. There are also numerous irregular verbs that follow their own specific verb pattern that must also be learnt and many of these are used frequently in everyday conversation such as; to be and; to have.

The complexities do not stop there because there are 16 different tenses that are each conjugated differently, these 16 tenses are split into 8 simple tenses and 8 perfect (compound) tenses and it is these perfect tenses that should give you a clue as to the verb many, including myself, deem to be the most important verb in Spanish. There are four distinct types of Spanish verb and they are; regular, irregular, reflexive and auxiliary and there is one specific auxiliary verb that is used with the past participle of every single verb in Spanish in each of the 8 perfect tenses. That verb of which I am writing about is haber meaning to have.

In both English and Spanish, the perfect tenses are formed by using haber, followed by the past participle (el participio in Spanish). In English, the participle typically is formed by adding -ed to the end of verbs; the Spanish participle, which has origins related to the English participle, typically is formed by adding -ado for -ar verbs and -ido for -er and -ir verbs.

The verb tense in the perfect tenses is decided by which simple tense of haber is being used: for example if we said: I have eaten and I will have eaten the only way to distinguish between the two would be the tense of the auxiliary verb being used; I have eaten = he comido and I will have eaten = habré comido.

It isn’t feasible to show the complete conjugation of haber for each tense in Spanish as there are so many but the example below highlights how haber is used, using the past participle of the verb andar, meaning to walk, in the first person singular for each of the perfect tenses:

Indicative Tenses

Present Perfect – he andado – I have walked

Pluperfect – había andado – I had walked

Past Perfect – hube andado – I walked

Future Perfect – habré andado – I will have walked

Conditional Perfect – habría andado – I would have walked

Subjunctive

Present Perfect – haya andado – I have walked

Pluperfect – hubiera or hubiese andado – I had walked

Future Perfect – hubiera andado – I will have walked

So there you have it, haber, is the most used verb in Spanish and as such rightfully earns the honor of being the most important Spanish verb. Obviously, the use of a full conjugation sheet for the verb haber would make the use of this auxiliary verb a great deal easier to understand and you can download or print off such a sheet here.

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The best way to improve your use of Spanish verbs and to master Spanish verb conjugation is to use a good Spanish verb conjugator, if you would like information about Spanish verb conjugator software and in particular about the newest and most interactive Spanish verb conjugation software program, read my honest review of the Verbarrator Spanish verb conjugation software. Don’t continue to struggle learning verbs, a Spanish verb conjugation trainer will help you to master Spanish verbs quickly and effectively!