Common Irregular 'Yo' Verbs
Common Irregular 'Yo' Verbs
A large group of everyday Spanish verbs are perfectly regular for every subject except 'I' — a narrow, predictable kind of irregularity English doesn't really have an equivalent for.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Irregular only in the 'yo' form
hacer: hago, haces, hace, hacemos, hacen — only hago breaks the regular pattern
make/makes: I make, you make, he makes — English's own irregularity (adding -s) falls on he/she/it instead
Verbs like hacer (to make/do), poner (to put), salir (to leave), and traer (to bring) are entirely regular except for a special first-person-singular form: hago, pongo, salgo, traigo. Interestingly, English concentrates its own present-tense irregularity in the opposite person — the third-person -s exception — so both languages have exactly one irregular slot in the present tense, just in different places.
Once you know the 'yo' form, the rest is predictable
salgo, sales, sale, salimos, salen — after the irregular salgo, every other form just uses the regular -ir endings
no equivalent pattern — English's -s exception is the only irregular slot in either direction
The useful part: once you memorize the irregular yo form, every other person conjugates completely normally from the infinitive. This makes these verbs far more predictable than they first look — you're only memorizing one unusual piece per verb, not a whole irregular conjugation.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- I make / I do
- English
- I put
- English
- I leave / I go out
- English
- I bring
- English
- I come
- English
- I have
- English
- I say
- English
- I know (a person/place)
- English
- I see
- English
- I know (a fact)