Modal Verbs y Verbos Irregulares en Inglés: Tabla Completa con Ejemplos

Modal Verbs en Inglés

Los modal verbs expresan habilidad, permiso, obligación, consejo o probabilidad. A continuación se muestran sus principales usos y expresiones equivalentes.

Can

• It's possible / It's OK if I/you are allowed
• Will you...?
• Is able to

Can't

• Aren't allowed to

Could

• Was able to (read)
• Were allowed to
• Would you...?
• Would you like me to...?

May / Might

• It is possible to
• Perhaps
• It's likely
• Maybe

Must

• You are obliged to
• It's your duty to
• It's the rule to
• I strongly advise you to

Mustn't

• It's forbidden to

Should

• I advise you to
• It's a good idea to

Shouldn't

• I advise you not to
• It isn't a good idea to

Have to / Need to

• Be obliged to
• It's necessary

Don't have to

• We aren't obliged to
• It isn't necessary

Doesn't have to

• He/She/It isn't obliged to
• It isn't necessary for

Verbos Irregulares en Inglés

Los verbos irregulares no siguen la regla de añadir -ed en el pasado. Es importante memorizar sus tres formas: infinitivo, pasado simple y participio pasado.

Tabla de verbos irregulares (A–W)

• Make / made / made – hacer, fabricar
• Mean / meant / meant – querer decir
• Meet / met / met – conocer, encontrarse
• Pay / paid / paid – pagar
• Put / put / put – poner
• Read / read / read – leer
• Ride / rode / ridden – montar (en transporte)
• Ring / rang / rung – llamar, sonar
• Run / ran / run – correr
• Say / said / said – decir
• See / saw / seen – ver
• Sell / sold / sold – vender
• Send / sent / sent – enviar
• Shine / shone / shone – brillar
• Shoot / shot / shot – disparar
• Show / showed / shown – mostrar, enseñar
• Sing / sang / sung – cantar
• Sit / sat / sat – sentarse
• Sleep / slept / slept – dormir
• Smell / smelt / smelt – oler
• Speak / spoke / spoken – hablar
• Spell / spelt, spelled / spelt, spelled – deletrear
• Spend / spent / spent – pasar tiempo, gastar dinero
• Stand / stood / stood – estar de pie
• Steal / stole / stolen – robar
• Swear / swore / sworn – jurar
• Swim / swam / swum – nadar
• Take / took / taken – tomar, llevar
• Teach / taught / taught – enseñar
• Tell / told / told – decir, contar
• Think / thought / thought – pensar
• Throw / threw / thrown – lanzar, tirar
• Understand / understood / understood – comprender, entender
• Wake / woke / woken – despertarse
• Wear / wore / worn – llevar puesto
• Win / won / won – ganar
• Write / wrote / written – escribir

Ejemplo práctico: Carta a Pedro

Hello Pedro,

You asked me for my opinion on which sport to choose, swimming or snowboarding, and I will help you choose one of them.

In my opinion, snowboarding is a very cool sport, but it is expensive since you need equipment to do it. However, swimming is a good sport for exercise; you only need to find an indoor pool because it is winter and it is cold.

To me, you will enjoy both sports. Now you only have to decide on one. I hope the advice I have given you has helped you. Keep me posted!