Spanish

Spanish has a large number of irregular verbs.
	Luckily, most of them can be categorized in groups which are irregular in the same way.
	In this lesson you will learn a group of verbs that changes the first person ending -o into -go in the present tense.



	Common verbs which do this are hacer, salir, valer and poner.
	If another verb ends in one of these verbs, for example suponer, you can be almost certain that it will conjugate in the same way.


<table class="ui fixed celled table">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>to do, to make</td>
			<td>hacer</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>to leave, to go out</td>
			<td>salir</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>to be worth, to cost</td>
			<td>valer</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>to put</td>
			<td>poner</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

<table class="ui fixed celled definition table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>-o → -go</th>
			<th>Singular</th>
			<th>Plural</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>First person</td>
			<td>hago salgo valgo pongo</td>
			<td>hacemos salimos valemos ponemos</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Second person</td>
			<td>haces sales vales pones</td>
			<td>hacéis salís valéis ponéis</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Third person</td>
			<td>hace sale vale pone</td>
			<td>hacen salen valen ponen</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>


	Note that hacer is an exception here, since we don't only add a g, but also drop the c to make hago.

Verbs where -o becomes -go

noun

adjective

determiner

verb

adverb

preposition

interjection

conjunction

pronoun

sentence

phrase

unknown

exclamatory

Word	Pongo el café en la mesa.
Meaning	I am putting the coffee on the table.
Part of speech	sentence
Pronunciation

in, on, at	en
the coffee	el café
the table	la mesa
to put	poner

Spanish

Pongo el café en la mesa.

Breakdown of Pongo el café en la mesa.

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