Spanish tenses organized by tense family.
MuyVerbs groups Spanish tense study by function: present and past forms, future forms, conditional patterns, subjunctive control, and commands. Browse a family, open a tense, inspect sample verbs, then move into quiz practice.
7 tenses
Indicativo: present and past
Use this family for facts, current states, past events, background description, and the sequence between one past action and another.
Presente
Present
Facts, habits, current states, and scheduled near-future actions.
Presente Continuo
Present Continuous
Actions that are actively in progress right now.
Pretérito Perfecto
Present Perfect
Past actions connected to the present moment.
Pretérito Indefinido
Preterite
Completed past actions at a defined point in time.
Pretérito Imperfecto
Imperfect
Past habits, background states, and ongoing descriptions.
Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto
Past Perfect
Actions that had happened before another past event.
Pretérito Anterior
Preterite Anterior
Literary forms for actions immediately before another past action.
3 tenses
Indicativo: future
These tenses cover plans, predictions, probability, and actions that will be complete before a later future point.
2 tenses
Condicional
Use the conditional family for polite requests, hypothetical outcomes, wishes, and speculation about what would or would have happened.
6 tenses
Subjuntivo
The subjunctive family handles uncertainty, emotion, doubt, desire, recommendations, hypotheticals, and rarer legal or literary forms.
Subjuntivo Presente
Present Subjunctive
Wishes, doubt, emotion, uncertainty, and necessity.
Subjuntivo Pretérito Perfecto
Present Perfect Subjunctive
Completed actions inside a present subjunctive frame.
Subjuntivo Pretérito Imperfecto
Imperfect Subjunctive
Past wishes, doubts, hypotheticals, and if-clauses.
Subjuntivo Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto
Past Perfect Subjunctive
Hypothetical or unreal actions completed before a past point.
Subjuntivo Futuro
Future Subjunctive
Rare legal and literary future subjunctive forms.
Subjuntivo Futuro Perfecto
Future Perfect Subjunctive
Rare completed future subjunctive forms.
2 tenses
Imperativo
Commands sit beside the tense system because affirmative and negative instructions use different patterns learners often mix up.