Spanish verbs

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Spanish verbs form one of the more complex areas of Spanish grammar. Spanish is a relatively synthetic language with a moderate to high degree of inflection, which shows up mostly in Spanish conjugation. As is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European languages, Spanish verbs undergo inflection according to the following categories: Tense: past, present, or future Number: singular or plural Person: first, second or third T–V distinction: familiar or formal Mood: indicative, subjunctive, or imperative Aspect: perfective or imperfective (distinguished only in the past tenses of the indicative mood as preterite and imperfect) Voice: active or passive The modern Spanish verb paradigm (conjugation) has 16 distinct complete forms (tenses), i.e. sets of forms for each combination of tense, mood and aspect, plus one incomplete tense (the imperative), as well as three non-temporal forms...

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