Irregular Verbs I

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Irregular Verbs I
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• All of the following verbs are irregular.
  Some are just a little irregular, and some are
  REALLY irregular. In each paradigmthats the
  chart that looks like this
• ____ ____
• ____ ____
• ____ ____
• --the irregularities in each verb form are
  highlighted so that you can see what they are.
  That way you know what to MEMORIZE.

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IR (to go)

• Ir looks very different from its verb forms,
  so Id have to highlight every single verb form.
  But look at hablar, and youll see that once
  you get past the yo form of ir, it doesnt
  look so strange
• voy vamos hablo hablamos
• vas vais hablas habláis
• va van habla hablan
• After you get past the yo form, the other forms
  of ir are just a v with the ar endings on it.

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TENER (to have)

• tengo tenemos
• tienes tenéis
• tiene tienen
• The next verbs changes are identical to
  those of tener
• VENIR (to come)
• vengo venimos
• vienes venís
• viene vienen
• Just remember that tener is an er verb
  with er endings and that venir is an ir verb
  with ir endings.

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HACER (to do, to make) VER (to see)

• Hacer and ver are similar in that both are
  irregular in only the yo form
• hago hacemos veo vemos
• haces hacéis ves veis
• hace hacen ve ven

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ESTAR (to be)

• Estar is irregular only in the first person,
  except for the fact that it has accent marks
  where regular verbs dont
• estoy estamos hablo hablamos
• estás estáis hablas habláis
• está están habla hablan

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• OK, two of the previous verbs come with their own
  little usage problems. How do you think you say,
  Im going to read?
• Voy leer.
• Wrong. Its Voy a leer. Any time an
  infinitive (a verb meaning to read, to write,
  etc.) follows a form of ir, it has to have a
  in front of it
• Juan y yo vamos a estudiar. -- Juan and I are
  going to study.
• Elisa y Carlos van a comer las manzanas.Elisa
  Carlos are going to eat
• the apples.

a
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• Tener has a similar requirement.
• How do you think youd say, I have to read?
• Tengo
• Wrong. Any time an infinitive (a verb meaning
  to read, to write, etc.) follows a form of
  tener, it has to have que in front of it
• Juan y yo tenemos que estudiar. -- Juan and I
  have to study.
• Elisa y Carlos tienen que comer las
  manzanas.Elisa Carlos have to eat
• the apples.

leer.
que
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• To sum up, here are all the irregular verbs
  youve just seen
• ir tener
  venir
• voy vamos
• vas vais
• va van
• hacer ver
  estar
• hago hacemos veo vemos estoy estamos
• haces hacéis ves veis estás estáis
• hace hacen ve ven está están

tengo tenemos tienes tenéis tiene
tienen
vengo venimos vienes venís viene vienen
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• And thats it.
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