50 Examples of Third Conjugation Verbs

Verbs of the Third Conjugation

The verbs of the third conjugation are those who in infinitive finish in -to go. For example: sleep, skip, leave.

When we talk about conjugation, we are referring to the ordered series of forms that the verb assumes in its variants of modes, tenses, number and person.

When verbs appear conjugated, one can distinguish a part that does not vary (the root) followed by what does vary according to the conjugation (ending).

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Regular verbs

The model verb of the third conjugation for regular verbs it is depart.
Root: part-

Irregular verbs

The situation becomes more complex in the case of irregular verbs because there are so many different modalities. The irregular verbs of the third conjugation form subgroups according to the type of ending, which is quite variable: -ecir, -irir, -uir, -üir, -guir, -gir, -ucir, -ñir, etc.

There are 45 groups of irregular verbs of the third conjugation, plus 17 verbs of the third conjugation defective, that is to say, they do not exist in all people or modes and times. For example: roar(only used by third parties), abolish(It is used conjugated only in the forms with ending beginning with the vowel -i, for example abolió).

The Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Letters collects 19 irregular verbs of the third conjugation as representative examples of the most frequent groups among irregular ones: leave, acquire, grasp, girdle, lead, build, say, discern, sleep, erect, go, shine, fluff, hear, ask, rot, leave, feel, smile, come.

The verb go

A verb very particular of the third conjugation is to go. This verb in some of the modes and tenses changes so profoundly that none of its letters appear in certain conjugated forms, as it happens in the present indicative (I go, go, go, go, go, go) and in the present subjunctive (go go go go go).

Examples of verbs of the third conjugation

The following list gathers verbs of the third conjugation, both regular and irregular verbs.

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