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Three verbs you can't avoid

Some of the most frequent verbs in Spanish don't follow the regular patterns. Here are three of them in full:

Pronoun Hacer (to do, to make) Ir (to go) Querer (to want)
yo hago voy quiero
tú haces vas quieres
él / ella / usted hace va quiere
nosotros hacemos vamos queremos
vosotros hacéis vais queréis
ellos / ellas / ustedes hacen van quieren

The forms in bold are the irregular ones.

  • Hacer only misbehaves once: hago. Everything else takes the regular -er endings.
  • Querer changes its e to ie whenever the stress falls on the stem — every form except nosotros and vosotros.
  • Ir is irregular all the way through. Learn it as a little chant: voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van.