Clues to conjugation in dictionary

Question

When I look up a verb in the dictionary how do I know how to conjugate it? The books I'm learning from said the dictionary will have reminders ie: DORMIR (ue, u) which means in present tense it's a stem changing verb (o changes to ue) and in past tense the o changes to u in 3rd persons. However, all 3 of my dictionaries don't have these reminders. I just came across a bizarre verb: picotear and until I looked it up here I had no idea how to conjugate it. Are there notations in the dictionary that I'm missing? Thank you!

Answer 1

Thanks so much Heidita, I use a couple websites for conjugation but needed to know how to do it without online help as I don't always have the web to access. ie: sitting at a coffee shop studying spanish without my laptop. I'll checkout the web you reference here as well.

Heidita said:

We also have a conjugator on this site:

conjugation

This is picotear.

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Answer 2

We also have a conjugator on this site:

conjugation

This is picotear.

Answer 3

Erin, probably the best conjugator on the web is WR.

You can even introduce a tense of any verb...like "comí" and it will lead you directly to the conjugation.

[url=http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp'spen=com%C3%AD]Look here[/url]

Answer 4

Yep, there is a system, the chart is referenced right after the verb. [A7] etc. So I know the verb I'm looking up is conjugated the same as the verb they referenced.

Answer 5

Ok, I figured it out - thank you!

Answer 6

What dictionary are you using? My (paper) Collins, for example, gives the conjugation model for all verbs.
If you want to check the correct conjugation of any verb, go here.

"Picotear" is regular, by the way.