spanish irregular verbs
Is there any rules to changing irregular verbs in the sense that you know it's irregular just by seeing it in its infinitive form or is it just all memorizing them? Using dormir as an example, without looking it up I would have said "estoy dormiendo" where it should be "estoy durmiendo."
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Overall, NO, they pretty much have to be learned case by case. After a while, you will see patterns of spelling-change verbs, which are not truly considered irregular (a sheet a prof gave me broke them into about 9 categories) like dormir. Once you've memorized those patterns, new words that follow them will be relatively easy to incorporate. Then there are the truly irregular (Ser, Ir etc) which you just have to memorize. The patterns in all others will get easier as you go.
