Example of Unipersonal Verbs
Spanish Classes / / July 04, 2021
The unipersonal verbs are those that can only be conjugated in the infinitive and in the third person singular at all times and do not have a subject, most of the unipersonal verbs refers to natural, meteorological, or atmospheric phenomena, although these are not the only ones.
The unipersonal verbs They belong to a type of defective verbs, which are those that cannot be conjugated in all persons or all tenses.
Examples of one-person verbs:
1. Happen
2. Concern
3. To incubate
4. Occur
5. Happen
The verb haber when used in the third person singular with the meaning of existing or being, is considered an impersonal verb.
Examples of unipersonal verbs that refer to having:
1. Ha
2. There was
3. Had
4. There will be
5. There would be
6. There are
7. Is
8. Had
9. There was
When unipersonal verbs are removed from their real meaning, they are no longer unipersonal, for example Amanecer: I woke up sick, since it has a subject and therefore is not unipersonal.
Examples of one-person verbs referring to atmospheric phenomena:
1. Dawn
2. Dawns
3. To become night
4. Nightfall
5. Sunset
6. Dusk
7. Deluge
8. It rains
9. Eclipse
10. Overshadows
11. Frost
12. Frost
13. Drip
14. Drips
15. Hail
16. Hail
17. Freeze
18. Ice
19. Rain
20. It's raining
21. Drizzle
22. Drizzle
23. to snow
24. Snows
25. Cloud
26. Cloud
27. Flash
28. Flashes
29. Thunder
30. Thunder
Unipersonal verbs are also those that refer to the sounds that animals make and are conjugated in the infinitive, the singular and the plural of the third person.
Examples of one-person verbs referring to animal sounds:
1. Howl
2. Howl
3. Bullet
4. Bleat
5. Bar
6. Trumpet
7. Brama
8. Roar
9. Snort
10. Snort
11. Cackles
12. Cackle
13. Cro
14. Croak
15. Chirps
16. Warble
17. Squawk
18. Squawk
19. Growls
20. Snarl
21. Barks
22. Bark
23. Meows
24. Meow
25. Muge
26. Moo
27. Pia
28. Tweet
29. Braying
30. Bray
31. Neigh
32. Neigh
33. Roars
34. Roar