Infinitives and Modals

AI Tutor: Guess the Tense (hablar, comer, vivir)

Start the Guess-the-Spanish-Tense game by clicking the button below to open the AI Tutor (María). María will give you a conjugated verb and you try to guess what tense it is. If you’d like, you can review the Spanish verb tenses below.

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  2. Click button (at left)
  3.  Enable ChatGPT Voice Mode (see image)
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Review the Spanish Verb Tenses with Ar, Er, and Ir Verbs Below

 

Present Tense:

  • I cook (cocino)
  • She runs (corre)
  • We live (vivimos)

Present Progressive Tense:

  • I am cooking right now (estoy cocinando)
  • She is running right now (está corriendo)
  • We are living right now (estamos viviendo)

Present Perfect Tense:

  • I have cooked (he cocinado)
  • She has run (ha corrido)
  • We have lived (hemos vivido)

Preterite (Simple Past) Tense:

  • I cooked (cociné)
  • She ran (corrió)
  • We lived (vivimos)

Imperfect Tense:

  • I was cooking / I used to cook (cocinaba)
  • She was running / She used to run (corría)
  • We were living / We used to live (vivíamos)

Future Tense:

  • I will cook (cocinaré)
  • She will run (correrá)
  • We will live (viviremos)

Conditional Tense:

  • I would cook (cocinaría)
  • She would run (correría)
  • We would live (viviríamos)

Imperative Mood (Commands):

  • Cook! (¡Cocina!)
  • Run! (¡Corre!)
  • Live! (¡Vive!)

Present Subjunctive:

  • It’s important that I cook (es importante que yo cocine)
  • It’s important that she run (es importante que ella corra)
  • It’s important that we live (es importante que vivamos)

Imperfect Subjunctive:

  • If I cooked (si yo cocinara)
  • If she ran (si ella corriera)
  • If we lived (si viviéramos)

Present Perfect Subjunctive:

  • I hope that they have cooked (espero que hayan cocinado)
  • I hope that she has run (espero que haya corrido)
  • I hope that we have lived (espero que hayamos vivido)

Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Tense:

  • I had cooked (había cocinado)
  • She had run (había corrido)
  • We had lived (habíamos vivido)

Future Perfect Tense:

  • I will have cooked (habré cocinado)
  • She will have run (habrá corrido)
  • We will have lived (habremos vivido)

Conditional Perfect Tense:

  • I would have cooked (habría cocinado)
  • She would have run (habría corrido)
  • We would have lived (habríamos vivido)

Past (Preterite) Perfect Tense

  • I had cooked at 7:00 a.m. (hube cocinado)
  • I had run at 7:00 a.m. (hube corrido)
  • I had lived at 7:00 a.m. (hube vivido)

Past Progressive Tense:

  • I was cooking (at a specific moment in the past) (estaba cocinando)
  • She was running (at a specific moment in the past) (estaba corriendo)
  • We were living (at a specific moment in the past) (estábamos viviendo)