Galician

Conjugate Verbs

Introduction

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of "historic nationality," located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León.

Galician and Portuguese were, in medieval times, a single language which linguists call Galician-Portuguese, Medieval Galician, or Old Portuguese, spoken in the territories initially ruled by the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. Both languages are even today united by a dialect continuum located mainly in the northern regions of Portugal.

The verb

• There are 4 moods in Galician: indicative, conditional, imperative, and subjunctive.
• There are 3 regular conjugations (verbs ending in -ar, -er, and -ir) and an irregular conjugation in Galician.
• There are no compound forms in Galician. Unlike most Romance languages, pluperfect is constructed without an auxiliary verb.
• There's an inflected infinitive, like in Portuguese.

Sample verb: andar

• Infinitive: andar
• Gerund: andando
• Past participle: andado

	Indicative					Conditional	Imperative	Subjunctive			Inflected infinitive
	Present	Past	Preterite	Pluperfect	Future			Present	Past	Future
Sg.1	ando	andaba	andei	andara	andarei	andaría	-	ande	andase	andar	andar
Sg.2	andas	andabas	andaches	andaras	andarás	andarías	anda!	andes	andases	andares	andares
Sg.3	anda	andaba	andou	andara	andará	andaría	-	ande	andase	andar	andar
Pl.1	andamos	andabamos	andamos	andaramos	andaremos	andariamos	-	andemos	andasemos	andarmos	andarmos
Pl.2	andades	andabades	andastes	andarades	andaredes	andariades	andade!	andedes	andasedes	andardes	andardes
Pl.3	andan	andaban	andaron	andaran	andarán	andarían	-	anden	andasen	andaren	andaren

Alternate forms

Verbs ending in -er and -ir show alternate forms in indicative preterite, 2nd and 3rd person singular.

Verb	2nd person	3rd person
coller	colleche(s) / colliche(s) / colleste(s) / colliste(s)	colleu / colliu
partir	partiches	partiu / parteu

The following isogloss maps show the distribution of the alternate forms in Galician speaking areas.

Forms like 'colliste(s)' show influence of Spanish.

External links

• Conjugate Galician verbs at Verbix

Verblists

• Galician: Verbs with Irregular Past Participle
• Galician: Verbs with Both Regular and Irregular Past Participle

Notes

• Galician notes
• Galician notes

References

• Bases prá unificación das Normas Lingüisticas do Galego. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Vigo, 1980.
• Diccionario esencial Galego - Castelán. Biblograf, S.A.. Barcelona, 2001.
• Información gramatical: lingua : ESO. Edicións Xerais de Galicia.
• Lorenzo Vázquez. Introducción a la gramática gallega.