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Spanish verb caber: conjugation

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The verb caber, which usually means something like to fit, have enough room¹, has a few irregularities:

• the yo form of the present tense has the irregular form quepo;
• the present subjunctive is therefore based on this irregular form quepa, quepas etc;
• the verb has a contracted future tense, based on the stem cabr-;
• the verb has an irregular preterite, with "unstressed" endings (cupe, cupo).

1. Idiomatic translations of caber can involve using an "impersonal" construction in English. For example, for no quepo, in idiomatic English one would often say there isn't room for me.

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