24 conjugation forms
Hello everyone! Spanishdict gives 24 verb forms with the word "hablar" as an example.
Indicative:
- Present. He speaks (habla) Spanish.
- Present Progressive. I'm speaking (estoy hablando) to my husband.
- Present Perfect. He has spoken (ha hablado) at several meetings.
- Preterite. He spoke (habló) to my sister yesterday.
- Imperfect. He used to speak (hablaba) Italian when he was a child.
- Preterite Progressive. They were speaking (estuvieron hablando) to some classmates about the trip not too long ago.
- Imperfect Progressive. I have no clue what he was speaking (estaba hablando) about.
- Preterite Perfect. He had (already) spoken (hubo hablado) to her when I got there.
- Past Perfect. He had spoken (había hablado) a lot before the train left.
- Conditional. He would speak (hablaría) French in France.
- Conditional Progressive. You would be speaking (estarías hablando) at the conference if you hadn't gotten sick.
- Conditional Perfect. He would have spoken (habría hablado), but he was sick.
- Future. He will speak (hablará) Portuguese on his vacation next week.
- Future Progressive. I will be speaking (estaré hablando) to my grandmother tomorrow at this time.
- Future Perfect. He will have spoken (habrá hablado) in three different countries by tomorrow.
Subjunctive:
- Present. It is good that he speak (hable) to your mother.
- Present Perfect. I doubt that he has spoken (haya hablado) to the president.
- Past Perfect. She did not believe that he had spoken (hubiera hablado) to a unicorn.
- Imperfect. It made me happy that he spoke (hablara) at the wedding.
- Imperfect 2. It made me happy that he spoke (hablase) at the wedding.
- Future. It is possible that he will speak (hablare) to your father.
- Future Perfect. It is possible that he will have spoken (hubiere hablado) to the whole family.
Imperative:
- Affirmative. Speak (habla)!
- Negative. Don't speak (no hables)!
Could someone please provide more examples like that for the most common Spanish verbs (poder, decir, ir, ver, dar, saber etc) with brief explanations/details in meaning?
2 Answers
Welcome to the forum. From your comments I assume your English is good, but I do not know what stage your Spanish has reached. You cannot automatically swap one English tense for a Spanish one. There are some regional differences for example the present perfect [haber + past participle] is used more often in Spain than parts of Latin America..
Here is a lengthy thread when a member learning his tenses was concerned in a similar way to you. He is now confidant in Spanish and one of the mods. The main responder is Lazarus a Spaniard from Spain who speaks fluent English and has an admirable knowledge of Spanish linguistics and grammar.
I see you are puzzled by the difference between preterite progressive and imperfect progressive. Learning when to use the imperfect and the preterite takes a lot of effort. Once you are clear with those tenses you will add the subjunctive mood. Th subjunctive is used more extensively than in English. I suggest you work your way through a structured course. Here is an all purpose grammar book
and here is a more general course
I find this blog very useful
Chenguang:
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Example with: hubiera ido
Qué pena que él ya se hubiera ido. Too bad he was gone already. Que cuidara a Kiraz cuando ella se hubiera ido. Look after Kiraz when she was gone. Patrick hubiera ido allá a matarla. Patrick would have gone there and killed her. Pensé que seguramente se hubiera ido con ellos. I thought for sure he would have gone with them. Quisiera que te hubiera ido mejor. I wish things would have been better for you.
No me dejo de preguntar si... le hubiera ido mejor sin mi. I just can't help but wonder if she would have been better off without me. Si ella no se hubiese entrometido entre Joe y yo... todo hubiera ido bien. If she hadn't poked her nose in between me and Joe... everything would have been all right. Si nos mantuvo tranquilos, apuesto que te hubiera ido igual que siempre. If we'd kept quiet, I bet he would have gone on like that forever. Probablemente hubiera ido, de todos modos. She probably would have gone anyway. Ojalá no me hubiera ido sin saludar. I'm sorry, too. I wish I hadn't stormed out. Mejor hubiera ido al concierto anoche. I'd rather have gone to the concert last night. Ella igual hubiera ido sin ti. If you weren't in the picture she would've gone anyway. Si fuera lunes, hubiera ido al supermercado. If it was Monday, I'd have been to the supermarket. No puedo decirle Karsten se hubiera ido. I could tell her but that would be the end of her for Karsten. Ojalá hubiera ido con ellos ahora. I wish I'd gone with them now. Me hubiera ido por argumentos compasivos. They would have given it to me on compassionate grounds. No habría sido traicionado Si yo hubiera ido a buscar nuestras tierras. We would've been betrayed... if l had gone to take our lands back. Porque les hubiera ido extraordinariamente bien. Because they would have done extraordinarily well. Parece que no me hubiera ido. Theysed my old picture. it's like I never left. Me hubiera ido al río a mirar el agua. I'd go down to the river and look at the water.
