Spanish is one of the romance languages and is the most commonly spoken of all languages descending from vulgar Latin. There is anything up to half a billion speakers of Spanish in the world today and it is spoken in more than 20 countries. Learning Spanish and familiarising yourself with its finer complexities is never a bad thing. Here is an article on irregular Spanish verbs, where to find them, how to spot them and what to do with them:

All verbs are either regular or irregular; this means they will either follow the set conjugation patterns or have to be conjugated in a different manner. Regular verbs are the easiest to conjugate; it suffices to merely learn the endings for each subject and tense. Irregular verbs are a little more tricky though and you generally have to learn these off by heart before you can use them fluently.

Irregular Spanish verbs don’t have to be a great cause for concern providing you’re patient and give them all due respect. Spotting an irregular verb is very important since you need to know which ones can’t follow the normal rules. Trying to conjugate these in the normal way would possibly lead to bad communication or confusion with other verbs. For this reason, spotting an irregular verb is the first thing to do.

Irregular verbs would generally sound very odd or difficult to pronounce if you were to take away the ending and add the new subject and tense endings. There would most probably be too many vowel sounds for the verb to be pronounceable and thus you could probably guess at the verb’s irregularity.

Other irregular verbs are a little more difficult to spot and these must be recognised off by heart to avoid misconjugation. I would recommend learning whether a verb is regular or irregular each time you come across a new one and practising its conjugation anyway. If the verb is irregular then you will have to find yourself a verb table or online conjugation service just to be sure.

The majority of irregular verbs are in very common usage and thus you will see them quite often anyway. This makes it easier to learn them but equally all the more important that you do get them right.

Even irregular Spanish verbs will follow some sort of pattern (except for the really irregular ones) and these patterns can be used to help you to memorise similar looking irregular verbs.

It’s always best to be cautious and look irregular Spanish verbs up in a table or online. Verb tables can usually be found in a dictionary or special verb tables’ reference book and all irregular verbs should be approached with caution and a complete lack of assumption. With all of this in mind, learning your irregular Spanish verbs should be far easier than it would first appear.