When to use it
- Actions happening now
- Habits and repeated routines
- Facts and general truths
- Scheduled or near-future plans
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Spanish Present Tense Conjugation Guide
Use the Spanish present tense for what happens now, repeated routines, general truths, and near-future plans.
Quick summary
This spanish present tense conjugation reference connects meaning to forms. Use the Spanish present tense for what happens now, repeated routines, general truths, and near-future plans. Remove -ar, -er, or -ir from a regular infinitive and add the present-tense ending that matches the subject.
How to form it
Remove -ar, -er, or -ir from a regular infinitive and add the present-tense ending that matches the subject.
Spanish Present Tense examples
Hablo español todos los días.
I speak Spanish every day.
Comemos a las dos.
We eat at two.
Viven cerca del centro.
They live near downtown.
Regular spanish present tense conjugations
Compare a model -ar, -er, and -ir verb. The bold portion is the complete conjugated form.
Practise this tense with common verbs
Open custom verb practiceCommon spanish present tense mistakes
Incorrect: Yo hablar español.
Correct: Yo hablo español.
A finite present-tense statement needs the form that agrees with the subject, not the infinitive.
Related Spanish tense guides
Spanish Present Perfect TenseUse the Spanish present perfect for completed actions connected to the present, recent events, and life experience within an unfinished time frame.Spanish Preterite TenseUse the Spanish preterite for completed past actions and events viewed as having a clear beginning or end.Spanish Present SubjunctiveUse the Spanish present subjunctive when a clause is framed through wishes, influence, emotion, doubt, evaluation, or a pending future event.
Spanish Present Tense FAQ
What is the spanish present tense?
Use the Spanish present tense for what happens now, repeated routines, general truths, and near-future plans.
How do you form the spanish present tense?
Remove -ar, -er, or -ir from a regular infinitive and add the present-tense ending that matches the subject.
When should I use the spanish present tense?
Use it for actions happening now, habits and repeated routines, facts and general truths, scheduled or near-future plans.
How can I practise the spanish present tense?
Use one tense with several common verbs, answer from memory, review corrections, and return when the saved forms become due.