How do I play?
Select the verbs and tenses you want to practice and click on the Play tab. This displays a grid showing a verb/tense in each column with blanks for you to fill in. The harder you have selected, the more blanks you have to fill in.
The number of verbs and tenses, when multiplied together must equal more than 6, as that is the number of columns. If it doesn’t, you can’t click the Play tab.
The cells show red if you are wrong, green if you are right and yellowish if you have asked for help.
Clicking on Help Once allows you to click on a blank cell and get the answer.
Show All fills in all the unfilled answers.
You can make it harder by randomising the verbs and/or the tenses and having more verbs.
If you are learning Latin American Spanish you can exclude the Vosotros subject.
Where do the verbs and tenses come from?
Fred Jehle, formerly a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, published approximately 600 verbs, fully conjugated in all moods and tenses, on his website in 1998. The resource helped students improve their verb use in addition to a variety of notes on other aspects of the language.
The roughly 600 verbs converted to 11,467 combinations of moods + tenses. Each verb is conjugated 18 ways:
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Spanish Moods + Tenses |
English Moods + Tenses |
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Indicativo
Presente |
Indicative Present |
This data is available via a Creative Commons license for anyone to use for non-commercial purposes and this is attributing the data to Dr Jehle. The database is available from https://github.com/ghidinelli/fred-jehle-spanish-verbs and the use is also attributed here.