![]() ![]() ![]() It includes a full page and a bit more, listing the "Principal Parts of Some Important Spanish Verbs" There are 50 verbs, each with apparently four (4) principal parts: Present Participle, Past Participle, Present Indicative, and Preterit. published by Barron's Educational Series. Thus it is confusing to read that "knowing the principal parts enables one to conjugate the verb." I have "501 Spanish Verbs" by Christopher Kendris, PhD. If this is true, they simply point to which set of conjugation endings to use - but do not in themselves give us any indication of what those are. There are discussions which say the only principal parts of a Spanish verb are the three parts ( ar, er, and ir) of its infinitive form. I've searched all the sources I can think of to learn why knowing the "principal parts" of verbs is important - and why - and am still wandering around in the woods.
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