30 Examples of Verbs and their Conjugations
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
Conjugated verbs
In the Spanish language, verbs They are the words that describe the actions, be they physical and perceptible or cognitive or emotional and, therefore, imperceptible outside the subject who experiences them.
The personal forms of verbs are conjugated in a certain way, time and person. For example: We walk (Simple past perfect of the indicative mood, conjugated in the first person plural).
Verbs can describe actions by putting the active subject in the foreground, that is, the person who performs or experiences that action, or by putting the action performed in the foreground. This is consummated in discourse by sentences in active voice, in the first case, or in passive voice, In a second.
Verbs are a key element of language, it could be said that the central one, and it is considered that they distinguish what is a phrase from what is a sentence: Sentences that do not have a verb are often called phrases, while those that do have verbs are considered sentences (there are, however, certain single sentences lacking a verb).
Conjugations
Verbs can appear in sentences in a personal way, conjugated in any of the various ways and tenses, or in a non-personal way, in what are considered quasi-verbal forms called verboids, composed of the infinitives, participles and gerunds.
All conjugated verbs keep a reference in time:
Furthermore, all conjugated verbs belong to different modes:
In turn, the conjugations will be made in relation to the people who perform the action:
Certain rules can be established regarding the conjugation of verbs, since most have the same suffixes to indicate verb tense, person and mood.
Irregular verbs
Unlike the regular verbs, there are verbs that deviate from these conjugation schemes, as is the case with irregular verbs ending in 'car', 'cer', 'cir', 'gar', 'ger', 'gir', 'aer', 'eer', 'oer', 'acer', 'ecer', 'ocer', or with those that have the letter 'e' or the 'o' in their penultimate syllable, among some other cases.
Another exception to the grammatical structures of the conjugation is the one produced by regionalisms: River Plate Spanish does not use 'you' but 'you' for the second person plural, and the ending 'áis' is replaced, for example, by 'as'.
Examples of conjugated verbs
Here is a list of conjugated verbs as an example, including the variants mentioned:
- Drawing. Tense: simple past perfect. Mode: indicative. Person: third singular. Juan drawing her home in class yesterday.
- They traveled. Tense: simple past perfect. Mode: indicative. Person: third of the plural. All together they traveled to Brazil on the same plane.
- We have gone. Tense: past perfect compound. Mode: indicative. Person: first plural. U.S We have gone several times to that workshop.
- They had confirmed. Tense: past pluperfect. Mode: indicative. Person: third of the plural. They they had confirmed the meeting time.
- We laughed. Tense: past imperfect. Mode: indicative. Person: first plural. Everyone we laughed a lot every time they told the story.
- They left. Tense: simple past perfect. Mode: indicative. Person: second plural. you guys They left later and that's why they arrived late.
- Had heard. Tense: past pluperfect. Mode: indicative. Person: first singular. Me had heard the screams the day before.
- Short. Tense: simple past perfect. Mode: indicative. Person: second singular. You already short too many times.
- Did you go out. Tense: simple past perfect. Mode: indicative. Person: second singular. You were on all the covers of the newspapers!
- Take. Tense: simple past perfect. Mode: indicative. Person: first singular. Yesterday take a fresh lemonade.
- They understand. Simple present tense. Mode: indicative. Person: third of the plural. My students they understand better when I give them examples.
- We could. Tense: simple conditional. Mode: indicative. Person: first plural. U.S we could bear the expenses.
- Would have. Tense: simple conditional. Mode: indicative. Person: second plural. you guys would have to pay in advance.
- Would have gone. Tense: compound conditional. Mode: indicative. Person: first plural. If it hadn't rained would have gone to the festival.
- Will be missing. Time: simple future. Mode: indicative. Person: third of the plural. If we don't investigate, will be missing evidence to convict him.
- Go to. Time: simple future. Mode: indicative. Person: second singular. You will go First in line.
- You will try. Time: simple future. Mode: indicative. Person: second singular. I guess next time the you will try best.
- I will have gone. Time: Composite future. Mode: indicative. Person: first singular. Tomorrow night now I will have gone to the supermarket.
- I arrived. Present time. Subjunctive mode. Person: first singular. The idea is that I I arrived first and prepare everything.
- Change. Tense: past imperfect. Subjunctive mode. Person: third of the plural. If the rules of the game changed, the panorama would be different.
- Were you. Tense: past imperfect. Subjunctive mode. Person: second singular. I asked you to leave.
- Have come out. Tense: past perfect compound. Subjunctive mode. Person: third singular. I hope that has left everything's fine.
- They would have found. Tense: past pluperfect. Subjunctive mode. Person: third of the plural. If the detectives they would have found before, the story would be different.
- Buys. Imperative mode. Person: second singular. Forever buys responsibly.
- Lend. Imperative mode. Person: second plural. ¡Lend pay attention to what I'm explaining!
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Types of verbs
Pronominal verbs | Action verbs |
Attributive verbs | State verbs |
Auxiliary verbs | Defective verbs |
Transitive verbs | Derived verbs |
Copulative verbs | Impersonal verbs |
Quasi-reflex verbs | Primitive verbs |
Reflective and defective verbs | Transitive and intransitive verbs |