regular verbs ending in eguir

George C.C1Kwiziq community member

regular verbs ending in eguir

There are several verbs ending in eguir where the stem changes in the present tense.  (for example -- seguir  becomes sigo, siges, ...)  Does this happen for all verbs ending in eguir or are there examples where the e does not change in the stem.

Asked 3 years ago
David M.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

George - I carried out a detailed investigation a while ago - see "Spanish '-ir' verbs"  at http://dlmcn.com/ir_verbs.html - and can confirm that all '-eguir' verbs do indeed follow that same pattern - as too do all verbs ending in '-etir', '-egir', '-edir', and '-eir' [plus a few others].

On the other hand, all '-ertir', '-erir' and '-entir' verbs change the "e" to "ie" when conjugating their present tense...

... while three '-ergir' verbs retain the "e", making no vowel-change in the stem.

George C.C1Kwiziq community member

Thanks

regular verbs ending in eguir

There are several verbs ending in eguir where the stem changes in the present tense.  (for example -- seguir  becomes sigo, siges, ...)  Does this happen for all verbs ending in eguir or are there examples where the e does not change in the stem.

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