Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs

by Kendris, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780764179846
• ISBN10: 0764179845
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc

Summary

Students of Spanish quickly discover that knowing the meanings of commonly used verbs—then learning how to use them in all their many tenses and forms—is a vital part of becoming fluent in the new language. This brand-new edition of Barron’s 501 Spanish Verbs now comes with a bonus CD-ROM that offers helpful practice exercises in verb conjugation and a concise grammar review. The book presents the most common regular and irregular Spanish verbs alphabetically arranged in table form, one verb per page, and completely conjugated in all tenses with English equivalents. The book also reviews rules of grammar applicable to verb usage, provides a bilingual list of hundreds more regular verbs, and offers tips on idiomatic verb usage. Tinted page-edge tabs offer language students quick alphabetical reference.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	iv
Preface to the Sixth Edition	v
Introduction	1	(2)
Formation of the present and past participles in Spanish	3	(1)
Common irregular present participles	3	(1)
Uses of the present participle	4	(1)
The Progressive forms of tenses	4	(1)
Formation of the past participle in Spanish	5	(1)
Common irregular past participles	6	(1)
Uses of the past participle	6	(1)
Passive voice and active voice	7	(1)
The Spanish infinitive and its principal uses	8	(1)
Principal parts of some important Spanish verbs	9	(2)
Sample English verb conjugation	11	(2)
A summary of meanings and uses of Spanish verb tenses and moods	13	(17)
The Future Subjunctive and the Future Perfect Subjunctive	30	(1)
Summary of verb tenses and moods in Spanish	31	(2)
Definitions of basic grammatical terms with examples	33	(12)
Verb drills and tests with answers explained	45	(33)
Answers to verb tests with explanations	78	(14)
An easy way to form the seven compound tenses in Spanish	92	(1)
Subject pronouns	92	(1)
The Spanish alphabet and the new system of alphabetizing	92	(1)
Abbreviations	93	(1)
Essential 55 verb list	93	(2)
Alphabetical listing of 501 Spanish verbs fully conjugated in all tenses and moods	95	(554)
Appendixes	649
Defective and impersonal verbs	651
Basic guide to Spanish pronunciation	665
Weather expressions using verbs	668
Verbs with prepositions	669
Index of common irregular Spanish verb forms	678
English-Spanish verb index	682
Over 2,100 Spanish verbs conjugated like model verbs	707