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Irregular present subjunctive forms

Having looked at regular present subjunctive forms in Spanish, you may be dreading a long list of irregular forms to learn. Luckily, Spanish has only a handful of forms that are actually unpredictable. They are the following:

As in the imperfect tense, the verb ver is essentially regular so long as you see ve- as being the stem:

Other than the verbs mentioned above, verbs that have an irregular present tense yo form use this form as the basis of their subjunctive forms. See: "semi-regular" subjunctive forms.

1. The accent here essentially distinguishes this form from the preposition de, and indicates that it is a "stress-carrying" word.

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