Spanish Conjugation

In English the infinitive — “to speak,” “to eat,” “to live” — is mostly a grammar term. You see it in textbooks and that’s about…

I remember the moment I found out Spanish has two past tenses. I’d just gotten comfortable with the present tense — the system made sense,…

When I started learning Spanish, verbs felt like a wall of information I had to memorize one word at a time. Then something clicked. The…

I used to think verb tenses were the whole game. If I could just memorize present, preterite, and future, I’d be set. So I drilled…

I took college Spanish. I studied. I passed. I could recite verb endings in my sleep. Then every weekend at family breakfast, Spanish would start…

When I first encountered irregular Spanish verbs I didn’t have a problem with any specific one. I had a problem with all of them. There…

The advice most learners get is to memorize a long verb list. Work through all 50, review them regularly, and eventually they’ll stick. That’s not…

I once opened a verb chart, took one look, and decided I urgently needed to reorganize my sock drawer. That’s not a joke. That’s what…

The perfect tenses in Spanish made me feel, for a long time, like I was just not a grammar person. Haber. Past participle. Irregular forms….

When I was studying Spanish, I used every conjugation worksheet I could find. Present tense AR verbs. ER verbs. Stem-changers. Irregular forms. I filled them…

When I was learning Spanish verbs I had notebooks full of conjugation lists. Page after page of forms I’d written out, reviewed, and then couldn’t…