Hola NMBookie! Have you checked out our Spanish Grammar section? It is just under the "Learn" tab at the top of the page. - rac1, Jun 1, 2012
Yes, given that I am an 82 year old beginner, but if that point was raised I missed it. - NMBookie, Jun 1, 2012
I am glad to see that you are here learning Spanish. Welcome!:) - rac1, Jun 1, 2012
Yours is a great site, truly, as is WordReference, in the Senior Center we use both sites to effectively "talk to ourselves in Spanish". ( Well, given the quality of my question, maybe you won't take this as a compliment.) - NMBookie, Jun 1, 2012
No problem NMBookie, just here trying to help if I can. - rac1, Jun 1, 2012
Congrats, NMBookie! At WordRef, their conjugator uses blue ink for their entire conjugation of "ir" in the future tense. You are right. "ir" is not irregular in the future. You should write them. - Esteban3304, Jun 1, 2012
Thanks, I've sent them a copy of my basic post on this forum. I appreciate the feedback, very much. :) - NMBookie, Jun 1, 2012
You might want to check out the conjugation of "ir" at 123TeachMe. They have a very nice conjugator. Here is a quote from their conjugator: Notes: ir is an irregular verb in the present indicative, preterite, present subjunctive, and imperative". - Esteban3304, Jun 2, 2012
Even 123TeachMe has it wrong! "Ir" is famous for being one of the three irregular verbs in the imperfect. - Esteban3304, Jun 2, 2012
So which bit do they have wrong on 123? ir is irregular in the imperfect because most ir verbs have ía endings but ir takes that 'ar' verb ending of aba. Is that what you mean? - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 2, 2012
Kiwi_Girl, I'd like to try to answer this one. Yes. - NMBookie, Jun 2, 2012
Esteban3304 - I haven't found any other source that says "ir" is irregular in either the Future or Conditional. Just looking at the spelling, it seems obvious to me that it is regular, but I'm just a beginner. - NMBookie, Jun 2, 2012
In the Imperfect for "ir" someone just seems to have taken the regular -ir endings, stuck a b in the middle, and quit. :) - NMBookie, Jun 2, 2012
lol :) - btw - nice answer above jeje - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 2, 2012
Yes Kiwi, I was trying to say that 123TeachMe erred in not including the Imperfect tense in their list of tenses where "ir" is irregular. - Esteban3304, Jun 2, 2012
Good observation, NMBookie. Once you've conquered the Present Indicative verb irregularities, you will probably appreciate that there are only 3 irregular verbs in the Imperfect. And they are pretty easy to figure out, as you just pointed out. - Esteban3304, Jun 2, 2012
