Spanish Irregular Verbs: Yo

Spanish Irregular Verbs in the "Yo" form

Now a G, Now an O, GO!

In the last chapter, I said there were two different irregularities in the verbs venir and tener: a stem change and a change in the ‘yo’ form.

Well, venir and tener aren’t the only verbs that add an extra ‘g’ before the ‘o’ in the ‘yo’ form. Many commonly used vebs in Spanish are irregular in the ‘yo’ form, even if that is the only irregularity they have.
For example, look at the table below.

	PONER to put	TRAER to bring	VALER to value	SALIR to leave, go out	HACER to do, to make
yo	pongo	traigo	valgo	salgo	hago
tú	pones	traes	vales	sales	haces
Ud., él, ella	ponen	trae	vale	sale	hace
nosotros/as	ponemos	traemos	valemos	salimos	hacemos
vosotros/as	ponéis	traéis	valéis	salís	hacéis
Uds., ellos, ellas	ponen	traen	valen	salen	hacen

Note that traer has an additional irregularity in the ‘yo’ form, with an ‘i’ in addition to the extra ‘g’.

Por ejemplo:

Thinking about VALER

You may be interested to know that the word “vale” is quite frequently used in Spain. For example, the phrase “no vale” is often used to mean, “It won’t work,” or “It’s no good.” The phrase “vale,” on the other hand, is a catch-all phrase meaning, “Okay,” or “It’s fine.” You’ll hear it a lot!

In the next section we’ll work on using the verbs: DECIR and DAR - "to say" and "to give.

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