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Apr 28, 2014 - 01:01 PM
Hello @Fabrice
It's great that you found your own way of memorising these irregular verbs. It's important to find these little tricks to help you learn these. But it's important to remember that in all languages there are rules but then there are always exceptions. So whilst your rule works perfectly for "poder", which becomes "puedo" in the first person singular, for example, it doesn't work quite so well for "poner", for example, which becomes "pongo". Another example would be the verb "saber", which becomes "sé".
And it's exactly because of these exceptions that we introduce verbs and their conjugations step by step. So keeping a list of verbs that follow the same conjugations is a great trick to keep on top of them and practise them together but be careful not to generalise and trip up when you come across an exception.
It's great that you found your own way of memorising these irregular verbs. It's important to find these little tricks to help you learn these. But it's important to remember that in all languages there are rules but then there are always exceptions. So whilst your rule works perfectly for "poder", which becomes "puedo" in the first person singular, for example, it doesn't work quite so well for "poner", for example, which becomes "pongo". Another example would be the verb "saber", which becomes "sé".
And it's exactly because of these exceptions that we introduce verbs and their conjugations step by step. So keeping a list of verbs that follow the same conjugations is a great trick to keep on top of them and practise them together but be careful not to generalise and trip up when you come across an exception.