100 Examples of Irregular Verbs (in Spanish)

Verbs

In the Spanish language there are different ways of classifying verbs:

It can serve you:

Regular and irregular verbs

As Spanish is an inflectional language, the conjugated forms of verbs are constructed by inflection of a root, which varies in endings according to the mode and time and according to whether it belongs to the first conjugation, with ending -ar (model verb: love), the second, with termination -er (model verb: fear), or third, with ending -to go (model verb: to leave).

In this sense, two types of verbs differ:

Most of the irregular verbs belong to the second and third conjugations. The irregularity can be reflected in a vowel or consonant alternation.

Completions –Cer or –aer they are representative of this group. Spelling variations (c / z, c / qu, g / gu), phonetic variations (i / y) and displacements of the stressed syllable can occur.

Types of irregular verbs

Eight groups of irregular verbs are recognized depending on the mode (s) in which the irregularities appear:

A special case is made up of verbs

defective or incomplete, which are the ones do not have a complete conjugation since they lack some personal forms or some verb tense, such as it happens with concern, babble, concern, soler, lie or be born.

Some grammarians consider them special cases of irregular verbs.

Examples of irregular verbs

Here are 100 irregular verbs as an example:

It can serve you: Examples of Regular Verbs

Other types of verbs