This document provides information on Spanish verb tenses and forms including the imperfect, preterite, future, conditional, and commands. It discusses imperfect verb conjugations, triggers that indicate the imperfect tense, and uses of the imperfect such as ongoing or repeated actions. Various Spanish verb charts are included showing conjugations for regular and stem-changing verbs in different tenses. Adverbs, modal verbs, progressive tenses, and superlatives are also covered.

1. By: Zorro Basel

2. 1) Imperfect Verbs
2) Imperfect Verb Conjugations
3) Triggers
4) Preterite (car,gar,zar/spock/cucaracha/snake/snakey)
5) Modal Verbs
6) Adverbs
7) Progressive Tense
8) The Past (Imperfect) Progressive
9) Future
10) Irregular Future
11) Conditional
12) Superlatives
13) Formal Commands
14) Prepositions
15) Demonstratives

3.  Uses:
 1) ongoing action (was/were)
 2) repeated action (used to)
 3) no definite beginning or end
 4) time/date/age/feelings/descriptions
 5) interupted activity (cuando)

4. -ar -er -ir
aba ábamo ía íamos ía íamos
s
abas abais ías íais ías íais
aba aban ía ían ía ían
ir ser ver
iba ibamos era éramo veía veíamos
s
ibas ibais eras erais veías veíais
iba iban era eran veía veían

5.  (Used to show the beginning of an imperfect verb
sentence)
 Todos Los Dias – every day
 A menudo – often
 A veces – sometimes
 Siempre – always
 Cada día – everyday
 Los lunes – on Mondays
 Generalmente – generally
 Mientras – as
 De vez en cuando – occasionally
 Muchas veces – often
 Frecuentemente - frequently

6. Tocar Jugar
•Toqué •Jugué
•Tocaste •Jugaste
•Tocó •Jugó
•Tocamos •Jugamos
•Tocaron •Jugaron
Comenzar
•Comencé
•Comenzaste
•Comenzó
•Comenzamos
•Comenzaron

7. dar
ver
Fuí, d/v-I
fuiste,
Hice, hiciste, hizo, d/v-iste
fue,
hicimos, hicieron d/v-io
fuimos, d/v-imos
fueron d/v-ieron

8. Andar
Estar
Anduv-
Estuv-
-e
Poder Pod-
Poner
Querer
Pus-
Quis-
-iste
Saber
Tener
Venir
Sup-
Tuv-
Vin-
-o
Decir Dij-
-imos
Traer Traj-
Conducir Conduj-
-isteis
Producir
Traucir
Produj-
Traduj- -ieron

9. Stem
Changers
• Dormir
• Dormí Y
• Dormiste
• Durmió Changers
• Dormimos
• Durmieron • Leer
• Leí
• Leiste
• Leyó
• Leimos
• Leyeron

10.  Conjugate and pair modal verbs with an
infinitive to get a new meaning
Modal Verb Formulas Conjugations
Ir+ a + infinitive Going to do something
Poder + infinitive Are able to do something
Querer + infinitive Want to do something
Deber + infinitive Should do something
Tener que + infinitive To have to do something
Soler + infinitive To be accustomed to...
Necesitar + infinitive Need to do something

11. -Mente Adverbs
 Normally formed by adding –mente to end
of the adverb (-ly in English)
 Claro Clara Claramente (clearly)
Irregular Adverbs
Mucho Mal Tan Poco (little) Peor
(a lot) (bad) (so) (worse)
Muy Ya Demarrado Siempre Bastante
(very) (already) (too) (always) (Quite/enough)

12.  “to be” with present principle
 In the process of taking place
 ESTAR + ando/iendo/yendo
Example
Estoy hablando a ti.

13.  ESTAR + ando/iendo/yendo
Example
Estaba hablando a ti.
I was talking to you.

14.  “Will”
-é
-ás
infinitive -á
-emos
-án

15. Decir Dir-
Hacer Har- -é
Poner Pondr-
-ás
Salir Saldr-
Tener Tendr- -á
Valer Vendr- -emos
Poder Podr- -éis
Querer Querr-
-án
Saber Sabr-

16.  To conjugate regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs
in the conditional, simply add one of the
following to the infintive:
 ía
ías
ía
íamos
íais
ían

17. Used when trying to say that something has
the most or least of a certain quality
Mas+Adjective Luis es el más alto.
(The most…)
Menos+Adjective Sofia es la menos
(The least…) agradable.

18. 1) Put in “yo” form
2) Change the vowel
ar---e
er/ir---a
Tenga
Venga
Dé, diga
Vaya
Sea
Haga
Esté
Saga

19.  Same as positive, except pronoun cannot
be added on

20.  Abajo-down
 Arriba-top
 Debajo de-below
 Dentro de-within
 Encima de-on top of
 Fuera de-outside
 A la izquierda-to the left
 A la derecha-to the right

21. This That Over there
m este ese aquel
f esta esa aquella
These Those Those over there
m estos esos aquellos
f estas esas aquellas
• Eso,esto, and aquello are neuter
situations/not nouns
• Accent marks denote pronouns which take
place of the noun
• All demonstratives always agree in gender
and number of the noun it modifies