Gramática Aplicada
Tres rutas para dominar la conjugación: estudia las reglas de cada tiempo verbal, explora los 30 verbos más usados con todas sus formas, o profundiza en temas como ser vs estar y el subjuntivo.
Tiempos verbales
Reglas de formación, terminaciones e irregularidades para cada uno de los seis tiempos principales.
Presente de Indicativo
What is happening now, habits, and general truths
Ver reglas →TiempoPretérito Indefinido
Completed actions with a clear beginning and end
Ver reglas →TiempoPretérito Imperfecto
Background, habits, and ongoing past situations
Ver reglas →TiempoFuturo Simple
What will happen — and present-time guesses
Ver reglas →TiempoCondicional Simple
What would happen, polite requests, future-in-the-past
Ver reglas →TiempoPresente de Subjuntivo
A mood for wish, doubt, emotion, and the not-yet-real
Ver reglas →Los 75 verbos más usados
Filtra por terminación o explora los 75 más frecuentes. Haz clic en cualquier verbo para ver su conjugación completa en los seis tiempos.
to be (essence)
to be (state)
to have
to do, to make
to go
to be able to
to say, to tell
to see
to give
to know (facts)
to want, to love
to arrive
to pass, to happen
to owe, must
to put
to seem
to stay, to remain
to believe
to speak
to carry, to wear
to leave, to allow
to follow, to continue
to find
to come
to think
to leave, to go out
to return
to take, to drink
to know (people, places)
to live
to eat
to feel
to die
to understand
to sleep
to start, to begin
to play
to ask for
to sit down
to fly
to remember
to count, to tell
to lose
to close
to show
to cost
to convert, to turn into
to obtain, to get
to maintain, to keep
to bring
to work
to study
to wait, to hope
to look at, to watch
to listen
to buy
to help
to finish, to end
to win, to earn
to use
to ask
to travel
to teach, to show
to sing
to dance
to read
to run
to sell
to fall
to write
to receive
to open
to go up, to climb
to decide
to cover
Temas de gramática
Explicaciones profundas sobre estructuras clave: ser vs estar, por vs para, pronombres y más.
El Presente — Verbos Regulares
Patterns for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs
Regular verbs in the present tense follow a predictable stem-and-ending pattern. Drop the infinitive ending (-ar, -er, -ir) and add the appropriate ending for the subject.
Estudiar →Pretérito vs. Imperfecto
The two past tenses — and when to use each
Spanish has two simple past tenses. The preterite describes completed actions with a clear beginning and end. The imperfect describes ongoing, habitual, or background past situations.
Estudiar →Ser vs. Estar
Two verbs that both mean 'to be'
Both ser and estar translate as 'to be', but they cover different territory. Ser describes essence: who or what something is. Estar describes state: where, how, or in what condition something is.
Estudiar →Por vs. Para
Two prepositions, two very different jobs
Both por and para can translate as 'for' in English, but they answer different questions. Para points forward — to a destination, a purpose, a deadline. Por points sideways or backward — to a cause, a means, an exchange.
Estudiar →Futuro y Condicional
What will happen and what would happen
The future and conditional are built the same way: take the full infinitive and add a set of endings. Both share the same set of irregular stems, so learning one gives you the other almost for free.
Estudiar →El Subjuntivo Presente
Expressing desire, doubt, and emotion
The subjunctive is a separate mood, not a tense. It appears in subordinate clauses after expressions of wish, doubt, emotion, necessity, and uncertainty. Most often introduced by 'que'.
Estudiar →Pronombres de Objeto
Direct, indirect, and where they go
Object pronouns replace the noun receiving the action. Direct objects answer 'what?' or 'whom?'. Indirect objects answer 'to whom?' or 'for whom?'.
Estudiar →Estructura de la Oración
Word order, questions, and negation
Spanish word order is more flexible than English, but the default is Subject-Verb-Object. Subject pronouns are usually dropped because the verb ending already shows who is acting.
Estudiar →El Gerundio
The -ando / -iendo form and the progressive
The gerundio is Spanish's equivalent of the English -ing form, but with a much narrower job. It's purely verbal: it describes how or while an action happens, and it powers the progressive with estar. Unlike English, it's never a noun ('smoking is bad') and never an adjective ('running water').
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