How to conjugate verbs in the indicative mood

In order to express actions in Spanish we have the verbs. These in turn can be divided into different modes depending on what you want to express with each of them. In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to see how the indicative mood is conjugated, the verb tenses that compose and examples of conjugations so that you can fully understand how this mode is composed. Keep reading and discover how to conjugate verbs in the indicative mood with an easy explanation and ideal for elementary and middle school students.

Before knowing how to conjugate verbs in the indicative mood, let's get to know the theory better. The mood of a verb will indicate one of its grammatical characteristics. This will show us what degree of reality does the action have which is stating the verb when we use it within a verbal predicate.

So now that we know what mode is, let's focus on what is the indicative. This is a grammatical form used in verbs, its objective is to express actions that are objective or real and that can be shown in different verb tenses, whether they are simple or compounds. They can appear therefore, when we refer to actions that have occurred so much in the present, those that have occurred in the past, those that will occur in the future or those that are expressed in time conditional.

The indicative mood have a series of features own that we are going to point out below and that will help you to identify it correctly, thus, the indicative mode will be used when:

• We want to point out a specific action that can vary over time.
• We refer to actions that are real or probable.
• We refer to objective actions in which something is affirmed.
• We want to state facts that are proven, concrete and real.

As we have already been advancing the actions in an indicative mode, they can be expressed according to a time criterion, so they will have different verb tenses. Here we show you what they are:

• Present of the indicative mood: is the one that expresses an action that occurs at the moment of speaking.
• Past perfect indicative mood: it is used when we want to express an action that has already happened and that has ended in the past.
• Past imperfect of the indicative mood: the action that it expresses has happened in the past, but it has not finished even at the moment in which it is being expressed.
• Future of the indicative mood: is used when we want to express an action that will occur in the future, but has not yet happened.
• Conditional: it is used when we want to express actions that are very probable, that is, that have a real chance of being fulfilled.

We are going to enter now to discover how to conjugate verbs in the indicative mood. Within the indicative mood we can find three conjugations, that is, those of the verbs ending in –Ar / -er or –ir. Let's see how those of the first conjugation are formed.

The verbs of the first conjugation are those ending in -ar. Let's take as an example the verb sing so you can see how it is conjugated in each of the verb tenses that we have seen:

Present indicative

• Singing
• Do you sing
• Sings
• we sang
• You sang
• They sang

Perfect tense

• Sing
• You sang
• Singing
• we sang
• You sang
• They sang

Imperfect past

• Sang
• You sang
• Sang
• We sang
• You sang
• They sang

Future

• I will sing
• You will sing
• They will sing
• We will sing
• You will sing
• They will sing

Conditional

• Would sing
• Would you sing
• Would sing
• We would sing
• Would sing
• They would sing

The verbs in third conjugation are those that end in –ir. We are going to see a series of examples of how the verb feel is conjugated in its different verb modes of the indicative:

Present

• I feel
• You feel
• Feel
• We feel
• You feel
• Feel

Perfect tense

• I felt
• Did you feel
• He felt
• We feel
• You felt
• They felt

Imperfect past

• Felt
• You felt
• Felt
• We felt
• You felt
• They felt

Future

• I will feel
• You will feel
• Will feel
• We will feel
• You will feel
• Will feel

Conditional

• Would feel
• Would you feel
• Would feel
• We would feel
• Would you feel
• Would feel

In this way verbs are conjugated in the indicative. As you can see, it is quite simple and the formula consists of adding a series of endings to the stem of the verb. In this way we can know at all times what time it belongs to and the way in which it is expressing itself.

We hope that the explanation provided and the examples that we have provided you on how to conjugate verbs in mode indicative has helped you to recognize them in a simple way to be able to easily identify them in any text.