Table of Contents
About the Authors v
How to Use This Book vi
Guide to Using Model Verbs viii
§1 Formation of the Present and Past Participles in Spanish 1
§1.1 Formation of the present participle in Spanish 1
§1.2 Common irregular present participles 1
§1.3 Uses of the present participle 2
§1.4 The progressive forms of tenses 2
§1.5 Formation of the past participle in Spanish 3
§1.6 Common irregular past participles 4
§1.7 Uses of the past participle 4
§2 Passive Voice and Active Voice 5
§3 The Spanish Infinitive and Its Principal Uses 6
§4 Principal Parts of Some Important Spanish Verbs 7
§5 Sample English Verb Conjugation 9
§6 A Summary of Meanings and Uses of Spanish Verb Tenses and Moods 10
§6.1 The seven simple tenses 12
§6.2 The seven compound tenses 22
§6.3 Imperativo 25
§7 Reflexive Verbs and Reciprocal Verbs in Spanish 28
§7.1 Reflexive Verbs in Spanish 28
§7.2 Reciprocal Verbs in Spanish 29
§8 The Future Subjunctive and the Future Perfect Subjunctive: A Note 29
§9 Summary of Verb Tenses and Moods in Spanish with English Equivalents 30
§10 Definitions of Basic Grammatical Terms with Examples 32
§11 Basic Guide to Spanish Pronunciation 43
§12 Weather Expressions Using Verbs 47
§13 Verbs with Prepositions 48
§13.1 Verbs of motion take the prep, a + inf 48
§13.2 The following verbs take the prep, a + inf 48
§13.3 The following verbs take the prep, a + noun 49
§13.4 The following verbs take the prep, con + inf 50
§13.5 The following verbs take the prep, con + noun 50
§13.6 The following verbs take the prep, de + inf 51
§13.7 The following verbs take the prep, de + noun 52
§13.8 The following verbs generally take the prep, en + inf 53
§13.9 The following verbs generally take the prep, en + noun 53
§13.10 The following verbs generally take the prep, por + inf 54
§13.11 Verb + NO PREPOSITION + inf 55
§13.12 The following verbs do not ordinarily require a preposition 56
§14 An Easy Way to Form the Seven Compound Tenses in Spanish 57
§15 Subject Pronouns 57
§16 The Spanish Alphabet and the New System of Alphabetizing 58
Essential 55 Verb List 59
Alphabetical Listing of 501 Spanish Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses and Moods 61
Abbreviations 62
Appendices 615
Defective and Impersonal Verbs 617
Index of Common Irregular Spanish Verb Forms Identified by Infinitives 631
English-Spanish Verb Index 635
Over 2,300 Spanish Verbs Conjugated Like Model Verbs 661