Nouns from verbs

Question

Howdy folks.

Anyone happen to know of a decent resource(s) [archives or lists would be perfect] of nouns derived from their verbs.

Eg: jugar --> juego, ayudar -->ayuda, ver -->vista.

Unfortunately, there are no guidelines of when to drop the 'r'/use first person/participle. And these are just three of the ways nouns are formed from verbs.

As we've basically got to learn them one-by-one, it would be nice to have a bunch of verb=nouns bunched together somewhere.

Any ideas..?

This is a great question, as a teacher, it would be a nice resource to share with my students. - ashepard, Apr 30, 2012

I'm not expecting much luck with this one. Might just try and put a shift in and knock something together myself... - VcFwanabee, May 1, 2012

Answer 1

Well, I started putting a list together the other day. Will work on it some more at a later date.

No file upload here so will have to write it out again to post it here. Happy to do it if people think it will be useful...

Answer 2

Good question, and from my perspective, timely. I just finished my first semester this week and this was at the top of my list to inquire about afterwards. I was actually going to see if there was a pattern, but barring that, a list I could spend some time memorizing would be the next best thing. Would be a great resource. Thanks in advance.

More than patterns there seem to be groups or types, which makes things easier to an extent. Although I've read in many places that there are no real rules/guidelines for this. - VcFwanabee, May 10, 2012

That is execpt for -ion nouns [in English] commonly translating into ión nouns in Spanish... - VcFwanabee, May 10, 2012

Ok. Busy week coming up, but I'll post something here soon. Not sure when, but I'm thinking I'll do a few in stages - no pattern, just as they come - and then maybe put them all togther in one list. See how things go... - VcFwanabee, May 12, 2012