Irregular Verb Families Example
Spanish Classes / / July 04, 2021
As is known, in Spanish there are six families of irregular verbs. Let's remember them:
First family: by guturization
To it correspond the verbs in whose nuclei there is a guttural sound or
see that it is the phoneme g.
For example:
- to worth
- come
In the form pity, from the verb pity, the phoneme c of the lexeme compadec joins the phoneme or of the grameme to produce a velar or guttural sound.
Verbs like: to be born, to appear, to lead, also belong to this family:
to be born, I am born to seem, I seem to drive, I drive
Second family: by diphthongation
This family groups the verbs whose vowel phonemes u, e they form the diphthongs eu, ie.
For example:
- Play game
- Think think
- understand, understand
Third family: by vowel barter
Here the irregularity is that there is a change of vowels: e for /, or for u, for /.
For example:
- ask, I ask
- sleep, slept
- Do did
Fourth family: and euphonic
When conjugating verbs like build, include, influence, between the lexeme and the grameme of the present indicative, the phoneme and is inserted to give the word a good sound:
- build, build-o, build-e
- include, include-o, include-e
- influence, influence-o, influence-e
Fifth family: plain past
Let the verbs be walk, be. Between the lexeme and the grameme of these verbs, the irregularity occurs in the first person present of the Indicative.
For example:
- walk, and-uv-e
- be, est-uv-e
- satisfy, satisfy-i-c-e
Regarding verbs such as: fit, drive, translate, at the same time, it presents the following forms:
Fit, fit, fit, drive, drive, drive translate, translate, translate
Sixth family: altered future
Here the alteration, as the name implies, occurs in the future tense:
For example:
- say, i will say
- do, i will do
- come, i will come
Finally, there are verbs that show two and three irregularities.
For example:
- want, want, want
- come, I come, I will come, we came
- undo, undo, undo, undo