Lesson 84

Seeing the Whole Tense Map

Language Transfer Complete Spanish is by Mihalis Eleftheriou. Listen to the original audio first; use these notes for revision.

You now have the complete panorama of all tenses and moods: present, imperfect, preterite, future, conditional, present perfect, pluperfect, present subjunctive, past subjunctive.

The course now tidies up irregularities. The -go verbs form a family — they all use -go instead of -o for the "I" form, but only for "I":

All -go verbs: tengo, vengo, hago, pongo, salgo, digo, traigo, caigo, oigo.

Traer = to bring. Related to English "-tract" verbs: extraer (extract), atraer (attract), contraer (contract), distraer (distract).

Sentences practiced

Spanish	English
Tener→tengo.	I have.
Tiene.	He has.
Tienes.	You have.
Tienen.	They have.
Tenemos.	We have.
Venir→vengo.	I come.
Viene.	He comes.
Vienen.	They come.
Vienes.	You come.
Venimos.	We come.
Salir→salgo.	I leave.
Poner→pongo.	I put.
Extraer.	To extract.
Atraer.	To attract.
Contraer.	To contract.
Distraer.	To distract.