FHUHS Spanish

Some common verbs are entirely irregular in the preterite indicative. The irregularities can be more of less classified by the nature of the irregularity. You will note that none of these irregular forms carry any written accents anywhere in the paradigm.

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Preterite Stem-Changing Verbs

A common mistake made by students of Spanish is to carry over the stem changes from the present indicative to the preterite indicative. The common o -> ue, e -> ie, and e -> i stem changes of the present indicative never carry over into the preterite forms. However, many -er and -ir verbs which have a stem change in the present indicative do have a type of stem change in the preterite, but it is generally a different change, and then, only in the 3rd person. For example:

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