Lesson 10.1.4 · Common Verbs
🛠️ Verbos Comunes
Forty-plus high-frequency verbs you'll need every day — from estar and volver to lograr, descubrir, and explicar. Master these and you can handle most everyday conversation.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
Being, Doing & Going
The core action verbs that anchor most Colombian sentences.
to be (state / location)
Estoy cansado — I'm tired.
to owe / should / must
Debo irme — I should go.
to return / come back
to try
to search / look for
to enter
to take out / pull out
to bring
to fall
to reach / attain
to be born
to touch / play (instrument)
Asking, Saying & Telling
Verbs you'll use to communicate, request, and explain.
to count / to tell
Cuéntame — tell me.
to narrate / tell (a story)
to ask for / order
Pedir la cuenta — ask for the check.
to receive
to offer
to permit / allow
to accept
to explain
to present / introduce
to recognize
to comprehend / understand
to suppose / assume
to consider
Achieving, Producing & Becoming
Verbs about results, creation, and change.
to achieve / manage to
to obtain / get
to fulfill / comply / turn (age)
Cumplo años — it's my birthday.
to carry out / accomplish
to begin / start
Synonym of empezar.
to serve / be useful
to maintain / keep
to produce
to create
to form
to convert / turn into
to result / turn out
to lose
to occur / happen
to exist
to appear / show up
to discover
to direct / lead
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
to create
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
perder
to search / look for
pedir
traer
to try
to fulfill / comply / turn (age)
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