Words / closed class

tercera conjugación

The verb class whose infinitive ends in -ir, closed to new members and the only one whose stem alternations reach the preterite.

cls.spa.tercera-conjugacion — closed, membership decided by a rule.

decirThe verb of saying, claimed by five behavioural classes at once, more than any other verb in the graph.inherent
irThe verb of motion toward a goal, built from three unrelated roots and sharing one whole tense with the copula.inherent
oírThe verb of hearing, taking a consonant before one ending and a written accent to keep two vowels in separate syllables.inherent
salirThe verb of exiting, taking a consonant before one ending and dropping a vowel in the future, with a regular preterite.inherent
venirThe verb of motion toward the speaker, irregular in four ways and one of the auxiliaries of a movement frame.inherent

5 members shown. Alphabetical — the roster itself carries no ranking claim.