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Grammar - The Irregular Verbs - Head Scratching
'I sleep like a baby every night!' Which Spanish pronoun and verb would you use for 'I sleep'?

Grammar - The Irregular Verbs - Head Scratching

This Spanish Easy Review grammar quiz takes a look at irregular verbs. If you have already taken the Spanish Easy Review quizzes on conjugating verbs (ar, er and ir verbs) in the present tense, and especially the quiz entitled Conjugating Irregular Verbs, you know that there will be many instances where you will simply have to memorize how a verb is to be conjugated. That is because there is no hard fast rule to follow. Unfortunately, Spanish has many irregular verbs. At this point you should know how to conjugate tener (to have), hacer (to make), ver (to see), and ir (to go).

1 .
Mr. Wilcox COMES for the rent every Friday.
vienes
veine
viene
vene
'Mr. Wilcox comes' is the same as saying 'he comes'. The first answer shows the conjugation of the singular, familiar 'you' so it is not the correct Spanish conjugation. The last answer shows how the verb venir would be conjugated to say 'he comes' if it were a regular verb which it is not. Therefore, the last answer is also not correct. The second and third answers look to be almost the same except for the spelling. The correct spelling for 'he comes' is viene.
2 .
THEY TELL everyone they see about their lottery win.
ellas dicen
ellos dicen
ellos diecen
ellas diecen
In this sentence you do not know who 'they' are. They could be a group of all boys or a group of all girls or a mixture of boys and girls. When you do not know who 'they' are you always use the masculine form of the pronoun. The first and last answers have both used the feminine form of the pronoun. To conjugate 'they tell', the verb decir becomes dicen which means that the third answer shows the verb misspelled.
3 .
WE FEEL it is important to tell the truth. (We is for a group of girls.)
nosotras sentimos
nosotras sentemos
nosotros sentimos
nosotros sentemos
In this sentence you are given the hint that 'we' represents a group of girls. The feminine pronoun for we is nosotras which means that the third and last answers can be eliminated. The Spanish conjugated verb for we feel is sentimos which means that the second answer is misspelled.
4 .
Did you see how SHE SLEEPS in her crib?
ella deurme
ella duerme
él duerme
usted deurme
The Spanish pronoun for she is ella which means that the third and last answers can be eliminated. The Spanish conjugated verb for she sleeps is duerme which shows that the first answer has it misspelled (as does the last answer). The second answer, on the other hand, shows the correct Spanish conjugation that is needed.
5 .
I TELL my best friend everything!
yo deigo
yo diego
yo dego
yo digo
The Spanish pronoun for 'I' is yo which does appear correctly in each answer. However, the verb decir (to tell) when conjugated with the pronoun yo drops the de and becomes di. This means that the first and third answers are not correct. The second answer has misspelled the conjugated Spanish verb for I tell by adding in a mistaken 'e'. The last answer does show the correct Spanish conjugation for I tell.
6 .
Will YOU COME to my party? (You refers to classmates.)
ellos vienen
vosotros venís
ustedes vienen
ellas vienen
The sentence asks, 'Will you come,' with 'you' referring to classmates. This tells you that 'you' will be plural and that classmates are more formal. The first and last answers show the Spanish masculine and feminine pronouns for 'they' so these two are not the correct conjugations needed in this sentence. The second answer shows the Spanish conjugation for the plural, familiar 'you'. It, too, is not the correct conjugation in this case. The third answer, on the other hand, does show the correct Spanish conjugation needed for 'you come'.
7 .
You SLEEP on the couch in the family room. (You refers to a cousin.)
tú duermes
usted duerme
usted dorme
tú dormes
In this sentence 'you' refers to a cousin who would be a familiar person. The singular, familiar Spanish pronoun for you is tú. This now shows you that the second and third answers can be eliminated. As the verb dormir is an irregular verb, it will not be conjugated as a regular verb. The last answer shows the conjugation of a regular verb making it incorrect. The first answer, however, does show the correct Spanish conjugation for you sleep.
8 .
You can bet THEY FEEL hungry now!
vosotros sentís
ellos sienten
ellas sienten
nosotros sentimos
As you cannot tell from this sentence who 'they' represents, i.e. all boys, all girls or a mixture of both, you always use the masculine pronoun for 'they'. The Spanish, masculine pronoun for they is ellos. This means that the first, third and last answers can all be eliminated leaving you with the second answer which does show the correct Spanish conjugation for they feel.
9 .
Mrs. Maxwell said that WE TELL many things about ourselves by the way we dress.
nosotros decemos
nosotros dicemos
nosotros decimos
nosotros dicimos
In this sentence you do not know who 'we' are. It could be all boys, all girls or a mixture of both. When you don’t know, you use the masculine pronoun for we. The Spanish masculine pronoun for we is nosotros. In this case, each answer shows that correctly. Now you need to know how to conjugate the verb decir (to tell). The Spanish conjugation for we tell is decimos. This now tells you that the first, second and last answers can be eliminated and that the third answer shows the correct Spanish conjugation needed here as the 'de' in decir is used with the pronoun we.
10 .
I SLEEP like a baby every night!
yo duergo
yo dorgo
yo dormo
yo duermo
The Spanish pronoun for 'I' is yo and it is correctly shown in each answer. The verb to sleep is dormir. There is no 'g' added to this verb making the first and second answers not only incorrect but each is also misspelled. When conjugating this irregular verb, the dor becomes duer showing that the third answer is also not correct. The last answer shows the correct Spanish conjugation for I sleep.
Author:  Christine G. Broome

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