Practice conjugating the 100 most common Spanish verbs.
Every Spanish verb changes its ending to show who's acting and when — hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos. Recognizing those forms when you read is one skill; producing the right one on the spot is another, and it only comes from practice. This drill covers the 100 most common Spanish verbs, including the irregular ones you'll use constantly, like ser, ir, tener, and hacer.
Yo hablo — I speak
What's happening now, habits, and general truths — and often the near future.
Yo hablé — I spoke
Completed actions at a specific point in the past.
Preterite vs. Imperfect →Yo hablaba — I was speaking
Ongoing or repeated past actions, and background description.
Preterite vs. Imperfect →Yo he hablado — I have spoken
Past actions connected to the present — more common in Spain than in Latin America.
Yo hablaré — I will speak
What will happen. In conversation, ir a + infinitive is just as common.
Yo hablaría — I would speak
What would happen, polite requests, and guesses about the past.
¡Habla! — Speak!
Commands and instructions — ¡Habla! and ¡No hables!
Yo había hablado — I had spoken
An action that had already happened before another past event.
Yo habría hablado — I would have spoken
What would have happened under different circumstances.
Yo habré hablado — I will have spoken
What will have happened by a certain point — also used to guess about the past.
Yo hube hablado — I had spoken
Rare and literary — an action completed just before another past action.
Full conjugation tables for every tense and mood:
See all 100 Spanish verbs →Start with the present, then the preterite and imperfect — together they cover most everyday conversation. The future and conditional are easy to add next, since both attach their endings to the whole infinitive (hablaré, hablaría). The perfect tenses are just haber plus a past participle, so once you know haber they come quickly.
The preterite is for completed events (Ayer comí paella), while the imperfect is for background, habits, and ongoing actions (Cuando era niño, comía mucho). Most past-tense sentences need you to pick one.
Read: Preterite vs. Imperfect →Only if you're focused on Spain. Latin American Spanish uses ustedes for every plural "you," so you can turn vosotros off during setup and skip those forms entirely.
Not for everyday Spanish. The preterite perfect (hube hablado) is a literary tense you'll mostly meet in older novels and very formal writing — in speech and modern writing, the pluperfect (había hablado) or the plain preterite takes its place. It's worth recognizing when you read, but you'll rarely need to produce it. Select Preterite Perfect at the tense step to practice it.
Mostly after expressions of wishes, doubt, emotion, and necessity — Quiero que vengas, Es importante que estudies. Choose Subjunctive or Both at the mood step to practice it.
Read: Subjunctive Triggers →Many of the most common ones — ser, estar, ir, tener, hacer, decir, poder, querer, and more. Some are only irregular in certain tenses: tener is regular in the imperfect (tenía) but not in the present (tengo) or preterite (tuve).