Lemma changes

Originally Posted by Tomisimo (Post 37113)

501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris is a classic. It's what I used to learn verb conjugations. The first few pages explaining the how the different tenses work are more valuable than the rest of the book. :)

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 37101)

Stem-changing verbs, or boot verbs, are the most common irregularity in verb conjugation. There is no way to predict when a verb will be irregular. All must be memorized.

There are four classes of stem-changers:
those that shift e to ie
those that shift e to i
those that shift o to ue
and those that shift u to ue

Originally Posted by brute (Post 37722)

thank you, I shall buy a copy of this book just for the first few pages.

Tres preguntas tontas.
¿Por qué tienen todas las idiomas exactamente 501 verbos irregulares?

Are you sure? :confused:

¿Por qué son los verbos los mas utilizados siempre irregulares?

Porque son los que más se usan. Se ha estudiado la derivación de las palabras y se ha establecido unas reglas, pero la más fácil de recordar es "la ley del mínimo esfuerzo". Sucede con las palabras, no te miento. Cuanto más se use una palabra, más normas de transformación va a sufrir, también la del mínimo esfuerzo. :)

¿Cual especie de animal es una lemma? (¿llama, lémur o lemming?)

Un lemma (lema en español) no es un animal, es una entrada de un diccionario. I don't know if in English it is an animal :thinking:

Originally Posted by irmamar (Post 37734)

I hope it'll be helpful

Originally Posted by brute (Post 37772)

These were meant as a joke. There are several books in the same series entitled 501 irregular verbs in; French, Spanish, German, Italian etc. These are not necessarily full lists and probably contain many composite verbs. you would think that well-used verbs would be the most used ones.

I am still not sure exactly what a lemma is, but two of them together(dilemmas) have horns. There is an expression "To be stuck on the horns of a dilemma" which means to be trapped between two alternative courses of action. "Between a rock and a hard place" is somewhat similar.

Originally Posted by brute (Post 37772)

These were meant as a joke. There are several books in the same series entitled 501 irregular verbs in; French, Spanish, German, Italian etc. These are not necessarily full lists and probably contain many composite verbs. you would think that well-used verbs would be the most used ones.

I am still not sure exactly what a lemma is, but two of them together(dilemmas) have horns. There is an expression "To be stuck on the horns of a dilemma" which means to be trapped between two alternative courses of action. "Between a rock and a hard place" is somewhat similar.

Originally Posted by poli (Post 37775)

That's a good joke:applause:
In English, which is often simple and pronoun directed, has some really
amazing irregular verbs:
to be
to be able to (conjugated I can,you can or I am able to you are able to etc, but never to can--that's a bird:)

English is a real piece of work too.

Originally Posted by poli (Post 37783)

to can (these two words don't go together in English- it's to be able to) sounds like toucan the South American bird with a huge colorful beak.

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar (Post 37116)

Larousse's Conjugación Lengua Española is available in Amazon, and I think it works pretty well. There must be some similar ones by other publishers of course.

Originally Posted by Tomisimo (Post 37113)

501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris is a classic. It's what I used to learn verb conjugations. The first few pages explaining the how the different tenses work are more valuable than the rest of the book. :)