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Irregular YO Verbs


As the title implies, these particular verbs have irregular forms in the 1st person singular (or ¨yo¨ form) that have to be memorized, as there is no definite pattern for recognizing them.  However, their conjugations in the other forms do follow regular conjugation rules.  

There are 3 categories of Irregular YO verbs.  
  1. Verbs that end in -go
  2. Verbs that end in -oy
  3. Verbs that end in -zco
  4. Verbs that are miscellaneous.  

Your common verbs that end in -go are:

hacer -->  hago           poner -->  pongo            *decir -->  digo
*tener -->  tengo          *venir -->  vengo

(*These particular verbs are also stem-changers in the boot).

Your common verbs that end in -oy are:

estar --> estoy          ser --> soy        ir --> voy      dar --> doy

Your common verbs that end in -zco are:
conducir --> conduzco         
conocer --> conozco

Then there are those few verbs that do not follow any specific pattern. 

​saber --> sé
ver --> veo
Irreg YO Practice
These are flashcards for the vocabulary of irregular YO Verbs.

This set of flashcards has the irregular YO forms. 

This set of flashcards has all the verbs plus their conjugated forms for translations. 
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