Verb Lookup
perseguir
to chase
🏃 Infinitive · Infinitivo
perseguir
pehr-seh-GEER
to chase
Gerund · Gerundio: persiguiendo
Participle · Participio: perseguido
ExtendedIrregularMovementSportsChildren's PlaySoccerBasketball
Yo · I
persigo
chase
Yo persigo.
I chase.
Tú · You
persigues
chase
Tú persigues.
You chase.
Él / Ella · He / She
persigue
chases
Él / Ella persigue.
He / She chases.
Nosotros · We
perseguimos
chase
Nosotros perseguimos.
We chase.
Ellos · They
persiguen
chase
Ellos persiguen.
They chase.
Why does this change?
- Irregular
- Doesn't follow a predictable pattern in at least one tense — these forms are worth memorizing individually rather than deriving from a rule.
- Stem-changing
- The vowel in the stem changes in most forms (e.g. e→ie, o→ue) — but the endings themselves stay completely regular.
- e→i in the present tense (except nosotros)
- gu → g before o/a (present yo)
- yo: persigo
- gerund: persiguiendo
Like seguir: e→i stem change, plus gu→g before o/a (persigo, not "persiguo").
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