The most common Spanish verb forms

Learning the whole range of Spanish verb forms can be daunting for beginners. But in much of the everyday Spanish that people generally read, a relatively small number of distinct verb forms account for a relatively large percentage of the verbs used. The table below contains the most frequent Spanish verb forms from a sample of 2,000 newspaper and magazine articles (totalling around half a million words). If you start learning these forms from the top of the list, then you are likely to be able to start reading and understanding written Spanish more quickly, which in turn will help you to acquire new vocabulary.

You can also test your knowledge of these forms by playing an on-line crossword puzzle containing verbs from the list below.

For convenience, this list has also been split semantically into a number of sublists:  Action  Aspectual  Auxiliary  Copular  Existential  Locative  Modal  Movement  Perception  Relationship  State  Utterance

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