100 Examples of Personal Verbs

The personal verbs are those that can be conjugated in all grammatical persons both in the singular and in the plural. For example:love, drink, live.

The grammatical persons are:

• first person singular (me). For example: I love, I drink, I live.
• second person singular (you / you / you). For example: love, baby, live / love, baby, live / love, baby, live.
• third person singular (he she). For example: love, drink, live.
• first person plural (we, us). For example: we love, we drink, we live.
• second person plural (you / you, you). For example: they love, they drink, they live / you love, you drink, you live.
• third person plural (they, them). For example: they love, they drink, they live.

Most of the verbs from Spanish they are personal; however, there are other verbs that are impersonal, because they can only be conjugated in the third person singular. For example: snow, sunset, rain.

Also, some personal verbs (to be, to be, to have Y do) can function as impersonal, because in certain contexts they are only conjugated in the third person singular. For example: There are clouds. / Does very cold.

• See also: Defective verbs

syntax of personal verbs

Syntactically, conjugated personal verbs are found in bimember sentences, fulfill the function of the verbal nucleus of the predicate and therefore agree in person and number with the nucleus of the subject. For example: Joseph she is engineer. (“José” is the core of the subject, “is an engineer” is the predicate, and “is” is the verbal core of the predicate and agrees in [third] person and [singular] number with “José”)

Instead, impersonal verbs are found in unimember sentences, that is, those that lack subject and predicate. Therefore, there is no subject with which these verbs can agree. For example:It's raining much.

Attention: It is necessary to take into account that in some sentences the subject is not mentioned because it is tacit. For example: I've got hunger.In this case, although the subject is not explicit, it is considered that "I have" is a personal verb, because it is conjugated in the first person singular (I). Therefore, these sentences are bimembers and should not be confused with the unimembers of impersonal verbs.

examples of personal verbs

embrace	doubt	leave
advise	to choose	rollerblading
grab	light	ask
analyze	find	to think
Add	to teach	lose
Approve	to write	to paint
help	listen	iron
dance	be	to plan
erase	to study	can
Search	explain	put
sing	to congratulate	to ask
sort out	Finalize	set up
cook	gain	to loan
to eat	Record	want
to buy	speak	to reason
conclude	find	to remember
consider	run away	laugh
build up	To imagine	distribute
copy	infer	check
run	play	to know
believe	swear	leave
Cross	justify	skip
cover	judge	continue
look after	wash	feel
to give	read	be
to decide	clean up	fear
tell	get	end up
decorate	wear	throw
discover	to improve	cough
return	to swim	to work
draw	browse	bring
split	opine	to travel
sleep	organize	visit
donate	organize	to fly

Examples of sentences with personal verbs

1. Pedro neighborhood the entrance of the building. (third person singular [he])
2. They resolved the equation quickly. (third person plural [they])
3. ¿you read the newspaper? (second person singular [you])
4. Every day, cleansed the kitchen counter. (first person singular [I])
5. Us we live In janeiro river. (first person plural [we-we])
6. Already saw this movie? (second person plural [you])
7. Lucretia won the chess tournament. (third person singular [she])
8. You sings very good. (second person singular [you])
9. Yesterday went to the park. (first person plural [we-we])
10. ¿you do a lot of sport? (second person plural [vosotros-vosotras])
11. My grandparents they cook very good. (third person plural [they])
12. ¿know this museum? (second person plural [you])
13. Nope Can I go to dinner, because am sick. (first person singular [I])
14. ¿You listened that noise? (second person singular [you])
15. My aunt speech very good in French. (third person singular [she])
16. ¿would you rather flan or ice cream? (second person singular [you])
17. On Monday we keep winter clothes in the closet. (first person plural [we-we])
18. The neighbors they asked what to them we would lend the blender. (third person plural [they] – first person plural [us-us])
19. ¿will pay cash or card? (second person plural [you])
20. Or well I enter in the office, greeting to all my co-workers. (first person singular [I])
21. Ever frown in this restaurant? (second person singular [you])
22. Jimena she is a well known doctor. (third person singular [she])
23. The members of the band they said that They were recording a new album. (third person plural [they])
24. Today I will have lunch with my parents. (first person singular [I])
25. Will study a lot for the exam. (first person plural [we-we])
26. the dressmakers they work long before a parade. (third person plural [they])
27. ezekiel wrote a postcard to her family. (third person singular [he])
28. ¿do you live in Rome? (second person singular [you])
29. ¿remember how I know call the director of this movie? (second person plural [ustedes] – third person singular [ella])
30. Many people they donated money to build the hospital. (third person plural [they])

Interactive test to practice

Follow with:

• Verbs in singular and plural
• Verbs and their conjugations
• types of verbs
• Verbs in the first person
• Verbs in the second person
• third person verbs

References

• Cano, F., Di Marzo, L., Klein, I., Masine, B., Muschietti, M., Roich, P., Seoane, C., Zunino, C., Barbeito, V., Cucci, M., and Plager, F. (2007). It is. 6. Language and literature. General Directorate of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires.
• Gomez-Torrego, L. (2005). Didactic grammar of Spanish. SM editions.