Verb conjugator

Spanish verb conjugation tables

Type any Spanish verb, or pick one of 16 common ones, and see it fully conjugated in the present, past and future, for every person. The built-in verbs are the ones you meet first and use most, regular and irregular.

Quick answer

Spanish verb conjugation is how a verb changes its ending, and sometimes its stem, to match the subject and the tense. This free tool lays out full tables for 16 of the most common Spanish verbs across 3 core tenses. Pick a verb like hablar (to speak) or ser (to be), or type any Spanish verb of your own to conjugate it on the spot.

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Showing hablar (to speak) · regular -ar

hablar

to speak regular -ar
Present
yo hablo
tú hablas
él/ella/usted habla
nosotros hablamos
vosotros habláis
ellos/ellas/ustedes hablan
Preterite
yo hablé
tú hablaste
él/ella/usted habló
nosotros hablamos
vosotros hablasteis
ellos/ellas/ustedes hablaron
Future
yo hablaré
tú hablarás
él/ella/usted hablará
nosotros hablaremos
vosotros hablaréis
ellos/ellas/ustedes hablarán

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How Spanish conjugation works

To conjugate a verb is to change its form to show who is doing the action (the subject) and when (the tense). In each table above, the subject runs down the left and the matching form sits beside it, across 3 core tenses: Present, Preterite, Future.

Verbs split into regular and irregular. Regular verbs follow a fixed pattern you can apply to thousands of others once you learn it; the badge on each verb names its type (regular -ar for hablar, for example). Irregular verbs like ser (to be) change in ways you memorize one by one, which is exactly why the most common verbs are so often the most irregular.

You do not learn these by staring at the grid. You learn them by meeting them, over and over, in real sentences until the pattern feels obvious. That is what reading does, and it is what reading in Lingo7 is built for: open a real book in Spanish, tap any verb form to see its meaning, and the conjugations start to stick on their own.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you conjugate Spanish verbs?

To conjugate a Spanish verb, you change its form to match the subject and the tense. Take hablar (to speak): in the yo form it is hablo now, hablé in the past, and hablaré in the future. Regular verbs follow a fixed pattern by ending; irregular ones you learn one at a time. This tool shows the full table for each.

What are the most common Spanish verbs?

The most common Spanish verbs include hablar (to speak), comer (to eat), vivir (to live), ser (to be), estar (to be), tener (to have), hacer (to do, to make), ir (to go). These high-frequency verbs are also the most irregular in most languages, which is why they are worth drilling first. This tool has full present, past and future tables for all 16.

Is Spanish verb conjugation hard?

Spanish conjugation takes practice but follows clear rules. Regular verbs are predictable once you learn the endings; the real work is the handful of very common irregular verbs and knowing which tense to use. Spanish is FSI Category I, about 750 hours to professional proficiency. The fastest way to make the forms automatic is to meet them again and again in real sentences, which is what reading does.

How many tenses does Spanish have?

These three, Present, Preterite, Future, are the core of everyday Spanish and the right place to start. Real Spanish also uses other moods and aspects (and, in most languages, extra compound tenses), but they build on the same stems and personal endings you see in these tables.