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Verbs: tenses

The following sections contains explanations on how to form and when to use the various tenses of Spanish verbs. Most pages contain on-line exercises (Java required).

• Introduction to Spanish verbs: overview of how the Spanish verb system works, highlighting in particular the notion of Spanish synthetic forms (words "fused together") vs English tendency towards analytic forms (using multiple words);
• Present tense
• Continous forms
• Preterite
• Imperfect tense
• Perfect tense
• Future tense
• Conditional
• The Spanish subjunctive
• The past subjunctive

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