Summarized Table for verbs

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Summarized Table for Past, Present and Future Tense of -ar, -er and -ir verbs for singular form only:

Here's are all 3 forms for 25 most commonly used verbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDUuB5YohO4

Since singular form I and you are used so often, it makes sense to learn these ones, instead of trying to remember tables for all forms. Here is the concise table (I've put plural forms at bootom of table to keep everything in one table). I've highlighted the first 3 rows as that is going to be used most often. The "you all" form (5th row) is only when talking in Spaon, and you can avoid that altogether (darkened as red below).

TIPS:

  1. Present tense of all verbs for first person "I" ends with "o". Present tense of you always ends in "s" (way to remember is that "you" in English is always treated as plural i.e "you are", so Spanish treats "you" as plural by adding "s" to conjugation), while 3rd person is treated as singular.
  2. Past tense for -er/-ir follows -ir form (for all 6 entries), while Fuure tense for -er/-ir follows -er form (for only 3 entries. Other 3 entries follow a form).Way to remember is "future" has "e" in it, so er verb followed for future.
  3. Future tense for any verb is recognized by seeing the full base verb + some suffix. i.e future tense of "I will speak" will be "hablar+é" = hablaré. Way to remember is Future means stretch the word, so the full base word is used. This way it stands out from all the other tenses, which truncate or modify the base infinitive verb.
 base word = -ar, -er, -ir Past Tense (-ar)/(-er/-ir) Present Tense (-ar)/(-er/-ir) Future Tense (Base word remains same, all have accent on a and e)). Boot entries follows -ar, while other 2 entries follow -er
I
 -é / -í ( has accent for past tense)  -o  -é (this follows ar past tense)
You
 -aste / -iste  -as / -es  -ás (same as ar present form, but with accent)
He, She, You
 -ó / -ió ( has accent for past tense)  -a / -e  -á (same as ar present form, but with accent)
We amos / imos -amos / emos / imos -émos (same as er form, accent or No accent?)
You all asteis / isteis -áis / -éis / -ís (only these have accent for Present tense) -éis (same as er form)
They, You all aron / ieron an / en -án (same as ar present form, but with accent)

 

 

Imperfect and Conditional (simple): Both are grouped in one table below, even though Imperfect is "past", while conditional is "future". This is since Conditional has same suffix as Imperfect (for -er/-ir). The only way to distinguish the 2 is that for Conditional, Base word remains same, while for Imperfect, base is modified to stem.

  • Imperfect: It is similar to past tense, but is used where events didn't have specific duration. 2 situations (See in "Past Imperfect verb" section):
    • I was eating,
    • i used to eat.
  • Conditional: It is similar to future tense, but is used to talk about hypothetical situations and make requests.  (See in "Future tense" section):
    • ex: I would like to go to France.

 

 base word = -ar, -er, -ir Imperfect Tense (-ar)/(-er/-ir) Conditional Form for all verbs(same as Imperfect -er/-ir conjugation)
I
 -aba / -ía ( has accent on i for all -er/-ir) i.e comía (I used to eat) => base word modied
  -ía (i.e gustaría (I would like) => base word remains same)
You
 -abas / -ías  -ías
He, She, You
 -aba / -ía
 -ía
We -ábamos / -iamos -iamos
You all -abais / -iais -iais
They, You all -aban / -ian -ian