20 May

The Spanish Irregular Verb Querer Conjugated

The Spanish verb Querer is one of the most widely used irregular Spanish verbs and because of this will need to be mastered fully. Querer is frequently utilized as the Spanish version of the English verb ‘to want’, but it can be used as an alternative to the Spanish verb amar, meaning ‘to love’.

Querer is a stem changing verb which is a verb that is often referred to as a ‘regular’ irregular verb and this is because the verb endings are the same as those used by a regular verb, with the only exception being the preterite tense. In the case of querer the ‘e’ in the verb stem changes into ‘ie’ when it is conjugated in a number of tenses and in some of the other tenses the short sounding and single ‘r’ becomes a double ‘rr’.

However, the most extreme change is when querer is conjugated in the preterite, the stem ‘quer-’ changes to ‘quis-’ for no apparent reason!

As with every Spanish verb conjugation the best place to start is with the Present tense. Each verb ending, as already covered, copy the formation of a regular -er verb, but the stem does change slightly. These changes in  the stem also happens in the present tense of the Subjunctive and the Imperative.

Present Tense Conjugation

yo quiero – I want
tú quieres – you want
usted/él/ella quiere – you, he or she wants
nosotros/as queremos – we want
vosotros/as queréis – you (all) want
ustedes/ellos/ellas quieren – you (all), they want

It should be noted that the first and second person plural stem does not alter, and this also applies for the other tenses that are affected by this irregularity.

Conjugation of Querer in the Preterite Tense

The preterite is a highly irregular tense for many verbs and querer is one of these verbs, it’s stem changes drastically as detailed here and also the regular -er endings for yo and él/usted are replaced by -e and -o respectively:

yo quise – I wanted
tú quisiste – you wanted
usted/él/ella quiso – you, he or she wanted
nosotros/as quisimos – we wanted
vosotros/as quisisteis – you (all) wanted
ustedes/ellos/ellas quisieron – you (all), they wanted

Unlike the present tense the irregular conjugations covers all persons. This specific irregularity is also found in the Subjunctive Imperfect and Future conjugations and also applies to every form.

Future Tense Conjugation of Querer

The final irregularity is encountered when using querer and is when the single -r transforms into the rolling -rr and this occurs when the verb is used in the Conditional and Future Tenses, once again this irregularity covers all formations in both of these tenses.

yo querré – I will want
tú querrás – you will want
usted/él/ella querrá – you, he or she will want
nosotros/as querremos – we will want
vosotros/as querréis – you (all) will want
ustedes/ellos/ellas querrán – you (all), they will want

It is obvious that querer will take some effort to learngetting to know but with the use of a Spanish verb conjugator which improves verb training there is no reason why querer cannot be mastered quickly and used confidently.


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