Regular Spanish verbs

I couldn't find a good, short, easy explanation about regular Spanish verbs. And as I never really took the time to learn them (after almost a year of learning Spanish xD) I decided to make a quick chart to study, and some pinpoints for when to use them.

Present			Preterite
habl o habl as habl a habl amos habl áis habl an	com o com es com e com emos com éis com en	viv o viv es viv e viv imos viv ís viv e	habl é habl aste habl ó habl amos habl asteis habl aron	com í com iste com ió com imos com isteis com ieron	viv í viv iste viv ió viv imos viv isteis viv ieron
Imperfect			Future
habl aba habl abas habl aba habl ábamos habl abais habl aban	com ía com ías com ía com íamos com íais com ían	viv ía viv ías viv ía viv íamos viv íais viv ían	hablar é hablar ás hablar á hablar emos hablar éis hablar án	comer é comer ás comer á comer emos comer éis comer én	vivir é vivir ás vivir á vivir emos vivir éis vivir én
Conditional			Subjunctive
hablar ía hablar ías hablar ía hablar íamos hablar íais hablar ían	comer ía comer ías comer ía comer íamos comer íais comer ían	vivir ía vivir ías vivir ía vivir íamos vivir íais vivir ían	habl e habl es habl e habl emos habl éis habl en	com a com as com a com amos com áis com an	viv a viv as viv a viv amos viv áis viv an
Gerund			Past participle
habl ando	com iendo	viv iendo	habl ado	com ido	viv ido

Present

Pretty obvious when to use this, same as in English

Preterite

Past tense.  You use this one when:

-          Something occurred at a fixed point in time

-          Something was done a specific number of times

-          Describing a chain of events

-          Something occurred in a specific enclosed period of time

-          Describing a sudden change of mood

(…in the past)

So, generally, you use the preterite when you know exactly when something happened.

Imperfect

Another past tense. This is used:

-          When talking about actions that occurred repeatedly

-          When something occurred over an extended period of time

-          To start off something you describe, like ‘we were going home when… ‘

-          When describing feelings and mental actions

(of course,  in the past)

Future

You use this when usually in English you would use will or shall. For things in the near future it’s usually better to use ‘ir a’, for things further in the future, use the future tense. It’s also used to express wonder or probability in the present tense (‘who could she be?’).

Note that in the future tense, the endings get added to the complete verb and not tot the stem.

Conditional

This is a very easy one as all you need to do is add the endings of the imperfect (in –er and –ir) to the complete verb (like in the future). This makes it basically a future in the past.

It’s often used wonder or probability in the past (‘who could she have been?’), but also just to describe the future from the perspecrtive of the past.

Subjunctive

The subjunctive is usually used to express doubt, hope, a wish, an opinion.. anything that’s not objective or a fact. It can be quite tricky. It is NOT used with these expression:

creer que ...
to believe that ...

no dudar que ...
to not doubt that ...

es cierto que ...
it is certain that ...

es claro que ...
it is clear that ...

es evidente que ...
it is certain that ...

es obvio que ...
it is obvious that ...

estar seguro que ...
to be sure that ...

es verdad que ...
it is true that ...

no cabe duda que ...
there's no doubt that ...

no es dudoso que ...
it is not doubtful that ...

no hay duda que ...
there is no doubt that ...

Credit goes to Study Spanish. All I did was make a summary.