verter, Los ríos vierten en el mar.
SpanishDict's sent "verter" as the word-of-the-day today:
Los ríos vierten en el mar.
But following a model verb for the conjugation of "verter", "perder", I changed for myself the sample sentence that SpanishDict gave in the email for the past tense, pretérito, "La fábrica vertió residuos tóxicos en el lago."
Please correct me if I picked the wrong model verb.
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Aha! another helpful tip. Thanks. In fact, I went back to the RAE and looked up "verter" once again. Indeed at the bottom I found the reference your post pointed out. The "modelo" given is "entender".
Then I decided to see what "modelo" I might happen to find on the page for the "modelo". And voila! I found none, but instead an indication that this verb, "entender", is itself a model verb: MORF. Conjug. modelo.
Natasha said:
Janice said:I would have been so happy to take your advice to go to RAE, but I don't think that RAE gives a model verb.I'd just like to point out that the RAE site does suggest model verbs. For example:[url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta'TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=mantener]mantener[/url]at the bottom it says:MORF. conjug. c. tener.so the model verb would be tener. Very useful, and so far no one has reported any mistakes from the RAE site.
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Janice said:
I would have been so happy to take your advice to go to RAE, but I don't think that RAE gives a model verb.
I'd just like to point out that the RAE site does suggest model verbs. For example:
[url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta'TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=mantener]mantener[/url]
at the bottom it says:
MORF. conjug. c. tener.
so the model verb would be tener. Very useful, and so far no one has reported any mistakes from the RAE site. 
Kathleen said:
RAE = Real Academia Espanola ''? Thanks for the info on Barron's. I"ve always thought of it as the "Bible"
Somehow, that book is seen as "the bible" by many people, but when I bought it, I started realising that it was full of mistakes (omissions, half truths, oversimplifications...) , and then I regretted buying it. 500 verbs should be enough for a fairly decent conversation, provided that you pick the right verbs, but you probably need at least 1000 for a fluent conversation, 2000 for a more profound one, about 4000 if you want to shine (probably above most natives), and over that if you want to make natives feel stupid. Supposedly, you need about 5000-6000 words (not just verbs) to be reasonably fluent in any language.
In any case, 501 verbs poorly translated are not enough in the long run.
Check this theread about the RAE: [url=http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/topic/show'id=1710195%3ATopic%3A1132008]http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/topic/show'id=1710195%3ATopic%3A1132008[/url]
Thank you so much, Daniel. As I replied to Heidita, I have no idea how I missed this. And then I saw a post from samdie indicating that he, too, had not yet noticed that feature. So I expressed "Perdón" to Heidita. The little "conjugar" is so evident that I am left to think that I must have only looked up nouns - albeit a lot of them - until now.
Daniel said:
RAE has a small box at the top where you can input the infinitive verb form -- then click. The conjugations will be provided.
Janice said:
I would have been so happy to take your advice to go to RAE, but I don't think that RAE gives a model verb. Perhaps I need to explore that site more, though, because I suppose it might itself have conjugations. Do you know if it does or if there is otherwise a reliable site.
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RAE = Real Academia Espanola ''?
Thanks for the info on Barron's. I"ve always thought of it as the "Bible"
I received the sample sentense from SpanishDict for the conjugation verter for the past tense, pretérito, "La fábrica virtió residuos tóxicos en el lago." This doesn't follow any of the Preterito rules. I hope they correct this if it is wrong. otherwise I would like to know the grammer rule it follows.
lazarus1907 said:
The RAE has the full conjugation of over 10000 verbs, which is probably more than any other Internet page or book! Check any verb, click on the blue button called "conjugar", and you'll see it. This is the most reliable source, since most serious books always check against their lists.
This time i found it easily. Don't know what I did wrong before.
RAE has a small box at the top where you can input the infinitive verb form -- then click. The conjugations will be provided.
Janice said:
I would have been so happy to take your advice to go to RAE, but I don't think that RAE gives a model verb. Perhaps I need to explore that site more, though, because I suppose it might itself have conjugations. Do you know if it does or if there is otherwise a reliable site.
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The RAE has the full conjugation of over 10000 verbs, which is probably more than any other Internet page or book! Check any verb, click on the blue button called "conjugar", and you'll see it. This is the most reliable source, since most serious books always check against their lists.
How have I missed this until now? Have I only been looking up nouns?
Perdón.
Heidita said:
conjugar verter. this is what you get, when you search for verter.
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lazarus1907 said:
The RAE doesn't have the full conjugation of over 10000 verbs
On the assumption that you meant to type "Does have ...", how does one get to the point of asking for the conjugation'
conjugar verter.
this is what you get, when you search for verter.
In fact, Lazarus, I had read your thoughts on Barron's before which was why I first went to SpanishDict.com. I would have been so happy to take your advice to go to RAE, but I don't think that RAE gives a model verb. Perhaps I need to explore that site more, though, because I suppose it might itself have conjugations. Do you know if it does or if there is otherwise a reliable site. Please forgive me for not first searching.....I am going to bet someone has posed this question and gotten an answer already.....
In the meantime, I have the paper Barron's here handy (Sixth Edition) from when I began this journey.
lazarus1907 said:
I wouldn't trust Barron's either, by the way.
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I wouldn't trust Barron's either, by the way.
Yes, Kathleen. That is where I looked after first looking here in SpanishDict's dictionary for the conjugation. I was not looking for the "i" to be wrong, by the way, but rather to find the missing "r" - that seemed a pretty glaring omission even to the beginner and, in fact, was probably just a typo.
I think that the dictionary here is correct -- as far as I can tell. (I only checked the "pretérito".) But always ready to doubt what I am doing, and having read, seen, commented upon myself recently that the SpanishDict dictionary computer algorithms are still a work-in-progress, I turned to the Barron's book afterwards to double check.
Kathleen said:
According to BARRON'S, "501 Spanish Verbs" perder would be the correct model. But, I'm new to this anyway!
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