Common verbs like enviar include the following:
confiar trust fiarse trust
criar bring up/raise guiar guide
desafiar defy/challenge liar tie up
desviar deflect/divert vaciar empty
enfriarse go cold variar vary
espiar spy
However, the majority of verbs ending in -iarare regular: cambio ‘I
change’, cambias ‘you change’ etc.
Most verbs ending in-uarfollow the pattern ofcontinuar. Examples are:
acentuar stress graduarse graduate
actuar act habituar accustom
atenuar attenuate situar situate
efectuar effect valuar [LA] value
evaluar assess
However, the small group of verbs ending in -cuarand -guarare regular:
averiguar‘verify’, evacuar‘evacuate’.
Two adjoining vowels in the stem
Some verbs have a diphthong in their stem, e.g. aislar‘isolate’ and reunir
‘join/gather’. In the case of a small number of verbs in this category, the
diphthong is broken into two syllables. This occurs in the singular
(excluding the vosindicative form) and in the 3rd person plural, in both
the present indicative and the present subjunctive.
The hin verbs like prohibir‘prohibit’ and rehusar‘refuse’ is irrelevant to
pronunciation and so these verbs also follow this pattern. See Tables 10.12
and 10.13.
Other verbs that follow this pattern are:
airar anger europeizar Europeanize
aullar yell enraizar take root
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1011
1
12111
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
20111
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
30111
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
40
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Present
indicative and
present
subjunctive
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