Spanish verbs 🇪🇸

About the Spanish verb trainer

This free tool helps kids study and practice Spanish verbs: over a hundred of the most common verbs — regular, stem-changing and irregular — in the six tenses taught at school: presente, pretérito indefinido, pretérito imperfecto, futuro simple, condicional and presente de subjuntivo. Each conjugation comes with the rule that builds it, the endings highlighted and the traps explained (the boot verbs like pienso and duermo, the spelling of busqué and llegué, the strong preterites like tuve and dije), and the browser can read every form out loud in Spanish.

How it works

• Study: pick a verb and a tense to see the full conjugation with the endings in colour, the rule behind it and the notes for that verb. Type any verb, even one that is not in the list, and it is conjugated as a regular verb.
• Full verb: fill in the six persons of one verb in one tense. Accents count — a form that is right except for an accent is flagged separately, so the kid learns the exact spelling.
• Mixed practice: random persons, verbs and tenses drawn from the verbs you choose — all of them, one conjugation at a time (-ar, -er, -ir), the stem-changing ones or the irregular ones only.
• Rewards: a round with every answer right unlocks a mini-game for up to a minute — short on purpose, so the practice stays the main event. The game is drawn at random from six, so the reward keeps changing, and every verb done at 100% is saved in your records. Ten right answers in a row — they can come from different rounds — unlock the big prize: five minutes of Castle Defense, a tower defense game. One mistake starts the streak over.

Why practice verbs this way

Spanish endings are wonderfully regular — the difficulty lives somewhere else. First the stem-changing verbs, the ones kids call boot verbs: pensar becomes pienso but pensamos, dormir becomes duermo but dormimos, and the change hits four persons out of six. Then the spelling that protects a sound (busqué, llegué, empecé), and finally the short list of strong preterites that simply have to be known (tuve, hice, dije, fui). Writing the forms yourself and being corrected right away is what makes them stick, and seeing the rule next to the verb turns a list into a pattern.

Tips for parents

• Start with the presente of ser, estar, tener and ir — four verbs that show up in almost every sentence — then add a regular verb from each family (hablar, comer, vivir).
• Introduce the boot verbs as a shape, not a list: pienso, piensas, piensa … pensamos, pensáis … piensan. The two nosotros / vosotros forms in the middle are the ones that stay unchanged.
• The subjuntivo is easier than it looks: it comes from the yo form of the present (tengo → que yo tenga, hago → que yo haga, conozco → que yo conozca). Show that trick once and it clicks.
• Use the Listen button: hearing yo hablo / tú hablas trains the ear for where the stress falls, which is exactly what the written accent marks (hablo vs habló).
• Review the to-review list at the end of each round together — those are the forms worth a second look.