Easy to start. Hard to get right. This is for the hard part.
Sixteen tenses, the subjunctive, the irregulars and the choices no vocabulary settles for you — drilled until they come without thinking.
You can know the conjugations and still freeze the moment you have to build a sentence yourself. Reciting a form is a different act from choosing, in conversation or in a text, between indefinido and imperfecto, between ser and estar, between indicative and subjunctive — choices English does not make for you.
LinguaMorpha builds every form of every verb it knows, across all sixteen tenses, and tests them in both directions. It asks not only "what is anduvieron?" but also: "give the pretérito indefinido, ellos, of andar". So you practise recognising forms and producing them.
A missing accent counts as correct, with the right spelling shown; so does a typo in the stem, because the ending is the grammatical part — unless the slip spells another form (hablo for habló is wrong), and Exact spelling in Settings turns this off. And where a form has several readings, every one of them counts: comía is yo and él.
The choices get drills of their own: ser or estar, indefinido or imperfecto, indicative or subjunctive — with the reason given.
Look at a verb and the irregular part is marked for you: red on the letters that change, an underline on the ending the pattern predicts. Tengo, puedo, tendré — at a glance.
And the traps get closed decks of their own: la mano, el mapa, the false friends, the words that change meaning. Nothing to set up.
Stuck while reading? Type the form into Look up. Anduvieron gives you andar, pretérito, ellos, with every reading of an ambiguous form.
Every form has been compared against an outside source. Every difference is documented in the open, on the site.
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Who it is for
The learner on a course. Evening classes, an online course, a textbook: they introduce the tenses and move on. Select the tenses and verb groups your course has reached and drill them until the forms come without thinking.
The learner in Spain or Latin America. You get by, and you know the verbs are what keep you at "getting by". Sixteen tenses, the subjunctive, the irregulars and the ser/estar and preterite/imperfect choices, drilled with feedback that explains — and a look-up that tells you which verb that form on the menu, in the paper or in the conversation came from.
The app-course graduate. You have finished the tree and still cannot produce the pretérito of poner on demand. This is the drill the conversation apps deliberately leave out.
The school pupil. Spanish at secondary school: the tenses arrive chapter by chapter and the test asks for them all at once. Here you actually drill them — type the form for a verb, tense and person, choose between ser and estar, between indefinido and imperfecto — and every answer is checked, accent and all, not just shown. The app remembers what you got wrong and comes back to it.
How it compares. Duolingo, Babbel and Rosetta Stone give a broad experience — listening, speaking, everyday situations — and skip the depth. LinguaMorpha is the opposite: explicit grammar, the pattern of every form made visible, and drills you choose yourself rather than a fixed curriculum. It has no speaking practice and no listening comprehension; it works well beside those apps, doing what they leave out.
Irregulars marked, not just listed
Red falls only on the part of a form that departs from the regular pattern — so you see exactly where a verb is irregular, and by how much.
The traps, in their own decks
False friends, nouns whose ending points to the wrong gender, and more — small, closed decks that need no setup.
Five ways to study
Grammar lessons, Theory, Practice Sets, Self Study and Tests — the same five in every course, sharing one catalogue and one adaptive engine, so an answer given in any of them counts in all of them. What each one is for →
What the app does
Type any form and see what it is. You heard quepo, read anduvieron, saw dimos and are not sure which verb it is. Look up searches every conjugated form of every verb in the course — over 1,100 verbs in sixteen tenses — as well as every noun, adjective, phrase and word, and tells you the verb, the tense and the person, with every reading of an ambiguous form. Accents are optional, capitals are ignored, a word in your own language finds the Spanish, and a misspelling still lands on the nearest headwords: tiner finds tener. Tap the result and the verb opens at that tense.
The marking scheme. Conjugation tables use three marks. Red falls on just the part of a form that departs from the regular pattern — the changed vowel of puedo, the g of tengo, the shortened stem of tendré — while the rest stays in the normal colour. A form that is red from end to end (soy, voy, era) has to be learned as a whole. An underline marks the ending the pattern predicts, so even on an irregular form you can see which half follows the rule. Blue is used for one thing only: the endings of the strong preterite (-e, -iste, -o, -imos, -isteis, -ieron), whose stems are irregular but whose endings form a consistent set of their own.
The shape of the marking tells you what you are looking at: a red letter in the yo form alone points to a yo irregular such as tengo or conozco; a red stem vowel in every present form except nosotros and vosotros is a classic stem change.
Regularity, tense by tense. Each verb's Regularity tab gives every tense a verdict — from Regular to Irregular — and shows in amber the stems you have to memorise; on the Conjugation tab, a filter hides the tenses that follow the pattern.
Choice drills. Most drills ask for a form; these ask which form the sentence needs — ser or estar, preterite or imperfect, indicative or subjunctive, por or para. That is where knowing the forms stops being enough. An explanation follows every answer.
Traps. Closed decks of things that actively mislead: false friends (the deck follows your app language, because the traps for an English speaker are not the traps for a Dutch one), the nouns whose meaning changes with the article (el capital / la capital), the gender traps whose ending points the wrong way, and the adjectives whose meaning shifts between ser and estar. Each deck brings its own words, so there is nothing to select first.
Choose what is in play. Sixteen tenses, each switchable on its own in Select tenses, and twenty-three verb groups, each tickable in Select verb groups — every stem change in one tap, or just the yo irregulars, or the strong preterites. Verbs can also be filtered by CEFR level and topic, so the drills follow the course you are on rather than running ahead of it.
Drills aimed at the weak spots.
- Verb meaning — flashcards, Spanish ↔ your language, in either direction
- Produce the conjugation — give the form for a verb, tense and person, typed or picked
- Recognise the conjugation — given a form, identify verb, tense and person
- Past participle — recall the participio, irregulars included
- Gerund — recall the gerundio
- Preterite — the yo and él forms of the indefinido, where the strong preterites show
- Future stem — the one stem the futuro and the condicional are both built on, fifty-one verbs
- Yo-form stem and Preterite stem — build the subjunctive on the yo form (tengo → tenga) and the imperfect subjunctive on the indefinido (tuvieron → tuviera)
- Stem changes, -ir stem change and Spelling changes — the whole presente of a stem-changing verb, the -ir change outside it (pidió, pidiendo), and -car / -gar / -zar keeping their sound (busqué)
- Short tú commands — the eight short commands and their negatives: ten / no tengas
- Ser or estar, Preterite or imperfect, Indicative or subjunctive, Which past tense? (perfecto or indefinido), Gustar and verbs like it and Ir a, tener que, acabar de — the choice drills
Sessions that work on what needs work. Every answer is recorded on your device. The words for each session are picked from your selection on the basis of your answer history and your Learning pace, and an Incorrect answers switch limits a session to what you got wrong before. Nouns get the same treatment as verbs: gender and plural drills, and closed decks for the traps, so that el mapa and la mano stop being guesses.
The Verbs hub
Theory, Study and Practice, all in one place.
Select verb groups
Tick the patterns to drill — a whole section, such as every stem change, takes one tap.
Select tenses
Switch tenses on and off by mood, or by CEFR level, from the present to the subjunctive.
Produce the conjugation
Type the form, or pick it from a list of look-alike options.
Recognise the conjugation
Given a conjugated form, pick the verb, tense and person. Any valid reading of an ambiguous form counts.
Gerund
Recall the gerundio, with the irregular part marked in red.
Verb meaning
Turn the card to reveal the translation; swipe right if you knew it, left if you didn't.
Speech and dictionaries
Spanish forms are read aloud with the voices Apple provides on your device, in Standard, Enhanced and Premium quality — the Enhanced and Premium voices are free to download and sound far more natural. A speed slider slows speech down for listening practice.
Verb and noun detail screens carry a Dictionaries row that looks the word up in Linguee, WordReference, Reverso and the RAE — in a browser sheet inside the app on iPhone and iPad, and in your web browser on the Mac. Choose which appear in Settings → Spanish → Dictionary services.
On Apple Watch, the companion app shows conjugation tables for the verbs you choose — the essential verbs at first, any verb in the course after that — in the tenses you choose.
For the teacher
What a pupil does with it. The app does not replace the course book; it is what the pupil opens beside it. Sixteen tenses and twenty-three verb groups each switch on and off separately, and verbs filter by CEFR level, so the drills can be limited to what the chapter has introduced — this week's indefinido, not next year's subjuntivo. Every session picks its words from the answer history, and the Incorrect answers switch keeps a session to what went wrong before. The reports show which tenses and words a pupil has practised, how well, and what has stuck.
The question the test asks. Knowing a conjugation is one thing; knowing which form a sentence needs is the other, and that is what the test asks. The choice drills do exactly that — ser or estar, indefinido or imperfecto, indicative or subjuntivo, por or para — with an explanation after every answer. The Traps decks are written for the pupil's own language: the false friends a Dutch speaker falls for are not an English speaker's, and the deck follows the app's language.
A set for the class. A practice set is a session you put together yourself — these verbs, those tenses, this kind of exercise — and share as a file, by AirDrop, mail or the school's learning platform. The pupils import it and drill the same material. For next week's test, or for the strong preterites half the class still has not got. For a fixed route, the grammar lessons in four level sections, A1 to B2, cover the same ground in order.
Hearing what you type. Every form is read aloud with the device's Spanish voices, at an adjustable speed; a pupil who confuses hablé and hable hears the difference. The detail screens link to the RAE, Linguee, WordReference and Reverso — the teacher chooses which.
What it is not. No teacher dashboard, no accounts, no class administration, no results sent to the school. That is a choice: a pupil's answers stay on the pupil's own device, and there is no server for them to go to. To see how a pupil is doing, ask to see the report — or have it exported as a PDF. No speaking practice and no listening comprehension: that is what the lesson is for.
How we know the forms are right
A conjugation app is as good as its forms. So they do not rest on the author but on comparison with a source a teacher knows, and on writing down every difference.
Every verb form against Wiktionary. All 47,292 forms the app produces for its 1,100-odd verbs — every person, tense and mood, participle and gerundio — have been compared with Wiktionary's conjugation tables. 47,264 agree letter for letter. 20 differ only in an accent, where the app follows the RAE's Ortografía of 2010 — guio, crio, riais without the accent — and Wiktionary writes the old one. 8 differ outright, and for each the register says what it is and why the app keeps its form or does not: the imperative despiértate, where Wiktionary is wrong, and the imperative of haber, where nobody is sure. What the app deliberately leaves out — the personal forms of llover and nevar, the imperative of gustar and soler — is recorded too, with the reason.
Every difference is on paper. The register can be read on the Open questions page, with the decided differences and the open question. It also guards the future: a change to the app that moves one more form away from the source fails the check until someone has judged the difference.
What this does not prove. That a form is right says nothing about the translations, the example sentences and the explanations in the choice drills; those were written by the author and have not been read by a teacher of Spanish. Anyone who finds a mistake in them helps the app most by reporting it — Support reads every message.
For the school
One price per pupil, no subscription. Spanish is a one-time purchase in the App Store, on the pupil's own iPhone, iPad or Mac; with the same Apple ID it is unlocked on all of them at once. No annual licence, no renewal.
21 days free first, for the whole class. Every pupil can use the complete Spanish course for 21 days without paying. That is enough for a trial with a class before anyone buys.
No accounts, no data. The app asks for no name, no email address, no age. Answers, progress and settings stay on the device; there is no server, no analytics, no tracking. For the school's data-protection review that is the short answer: no personal data is processed. The long answer is the privacy policy.
One app for the modern and the classical languages. The same app holds French — over 900 verbs, the passé simple included — and Latin — every declension, the classical verb system, a sentence parser — with the same drills, reports, practice sets and grammar lessons, and the same rule that nothing leaves the device. Each language unlocks on its own, or all three together as Unlock all languages.
iPhone, iPad and Mac. The same app on all three, with the same tables and drills: the school iPad in class, the pupil's own phone on the train, the Mac at the desk. One purchase covers every device on the same Apple ID; progress stays on each device, since there is no account to sync it through. Not for Android, Windows or Chromebook.
Two interface languages for Spanish. The app, the guide and this site come in English, Dutch and Spanish, but a pupil learning Spanish runs the app in English or Dutch — a Spanish interface on a Spanish course would hand the pupil the answers, and the app does not allow that pairing. An international school or a bilingual stream runs the app in English.
Purchase by the school. A school edition that the school buys itself through Apple School Manager — licences the school owns, reassigned to the new class every year, with Apple's education discount from twenty copies — is possible, but does not exist yet. We will build it as soon as a school wants to buy it; if yours does, say so through the Support page. Until then the answer is: the pupil's own device, one purchase, and 21 days free for the whole class.
The catalogue
- over 1,100 verbs, filterable by CEFR level, topic and verb group
- over 1,600 nouns, each with its article and its plural, nearly all with three example sentences
- over 270 set phrases, plus the example sentences of the verbs and nouns — thousands of sentences, each one drillable
- adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, numerals and prepositions, each with its own hub
The grammar, in detail
Exactly which tenses, verb groups and noun groups the course covers — open for the reference
Verb grammar
Sixteen tenses, each switchable on its own in Select tenses — from the present to the pluperfect subjunctive.
Indicative — simple
- Presente
- Pretérito Indefinido
- Pretérito Imperfecto
- Futuro
- Condicional
Indicative — compound
- Pretérito Perfecto
- Pluscuamperfecto
- Futuro Perfecto
- Condicional Perfecto
Subjunctive
- Presente de Subjuntivo
- Imperfecto de Subjuntivo
- Pretérito Perfecto Subjuntivo
- Pluscuamperfecto Subjuntivo
Imperative
- Imperativo Afirmativo
- Imperativo Negativo
Formas no Personales (progressive)
- Gerundio — conjugated through all six persons (estoy hablando, estás hablando, …), not just the bare -ando / -iendo form
The past participle and the bare gerundio sit at the top of each verb's Conjugation tab, marked where they are irregular; the full six-person progressive appears among the tenses below them.
Verb groups
Most Spanish verbs are regular — but the irregular ones cluster into recognisable groups, and drilling them by group rather than one at a time is a fast way to internalise the pattern.
Twenty-three groups, each tickable on its own in Select verb groups, in nine sections. Each section header has an All button, so one tap selects, for example, every stem change for a single focused session. A second view sorts the verbs by how many exceptions they have — none, one, two and so on.
Fully regular
- Regular — the predictable -ar / -er / -ir endings
Stem-changing verbs — the vowel changes where it carries the stress: in the present, every person but nosotros and vosotros
- e → ie — pensar, querer, preferir
- o → ue — poder, dormir
- e → i — pedir (-ir verbs only)
- u → ue — jugar
- i → ie — adquirir
- Accent shift í / ú — enviar → envío, actuar → actúo
Yo-form irregularities
- Irregular yo: -go — tener, poner, salir, hacer, decir
- Irregular yo: -zco — conocer → conozco
- Consonant + -cer / -cir: c → z — vencer → venzo
- Spelling shift -ger / -gir — escoger → escojo
- Verbs ending in -guir — seguir → sigo
Spelling-change verbs
- Y-insertion — leer, creer, oír, caer, where the y appears between vowels (leyó)
- Verbs ending in -uir — construir → construyo
- Spelling shift -car / -gar / -zar — buscar → busqué, llegar → llegué, empezar → empecé
An irregular stem in one tense
- Strong preterite — tener → tuve, hacer → hice, poder → pude, decir → dije
- Irregular future stem — tener → tendré, poder → podré, decir → diré: one shortened stem carries both the future and the conditional
- Irregular participle — abrir → abierto, escribir → escrito, romper → roto: regular in every simple tense, with one participle to learn
Irregulars that fit no pattern
- Irregular — ser, ir, estar, dar, haber, ver: irregular in ways no other group names
The last three sections change no ending; they say how the verb is built into a sentence, so a verb there can be perfectly regular as well.
Reflexive verbs
- Reflexive — lavarse, vestirse
Impersonal and gusto-type verbs
- Impersonal — llover, nevar, third person singular only
- Me gusta pattern — gustar, encantar, doler: the thing that pleases is the subject
Stative verbs
- Stative — states rather than actions, so not normally used with estar + gerundio
Noun grammar
Nouns are what learners most often try to brute-force, and where pattern recognition pays off most. The noun groups sort nouns by their grammatical character, and a noun can belong to several groups at once (canción has a predictable feminine suffix and loses its accent in the plural), so the group filter can target very specific patterns:
- Gender traps — mano and foto end in -o but are feminine; día and mapa end in -a but are masculine
- Greek -ma masculines — el problema, el idioma
- Predictable feminine suffixes — -a, -ción, -sión, -dad, -tad, -umbre
- Predictable masculine suffixes — -o, -or, -aje, -ón, -án, -ín
- Stressed-á feminines — el agua, las aguas: el in the singular, feminine all the same
- Different meaning by article — el capital (money) and la capital (city)
- Gender pairs — el tío / la tía, heteronymous pairs such as el padre / la madre, and one-form nouns such as el / la dentista
- Invariable plural — el lunes / los lunes
- Plurale tantum — los pantalones
- Plural formation — lápiz → lápices, canción → canciones, consonant + -es
- False cognates — words that look like a word in your own language but mean something else
Six drills: Noun meaning, Pick the correct article, Singular / Plural, Alternate gender pairs, Meaning changes with gender and One article for both sexes (Juan es una persona amable).
Gender and plural rules, stated
The endings that predict gender, the nouns that break the rule, and how plurals are formed.
Pick the correct article
el or la, drilled until the ending stops fooling you.
Phrases and example sentences
Set phrases plus the verb and noun example sentences, each drillable in its own right.
Try it
Every language is open for 21 days with every feature unlocked. After that, unlock Spanish on its own or buy Unlock all languages — a one-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no account. Your answers stay on your device.
One purchase, every device. The iPhone, iPad and Mac apps share a single App Store listing, so a language you unlock on one is unlocked on the others — same Apple ID, no second payment.