This introduction covers Los cuatro irregulares — The Four Irregular Verbs within Key irregular verbs: hacer, querer, poder, volver for GCSE Spanish. Revise Key irregular verbs: hacer, querer, poder, volver in Core Verbs — Present Tense for GCSE Spanish with 13 exam-style questions and 15 flashcards. Use this page as part of a wider topic revision path rather than treating it as an isolated fact. It is section 1 of 4 in this topic. Use this introduction to connect the idea to the wider topic before moving on to questions and flashcards.
📚 Los cuatro irregulares — The Four Irregular Verbs
These four verbs appear in nearly every GCSE task. Learn their present-tense forms and you unlock a huge range of sentence structures for speaking and writing.
| Persona | hacer (to do/make) | querer (to want) | poder (to be able to) | volver (to return) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yo | hago | quiero | puedo | vuelvo |
| tú | haces | quieres | puedes | vuelves |
| él/ella | hace | quiere | puede | vuelve |
| nosotros | hacemos | queremos | podemos | volvemos |
| ustedes | hacen | quieren | pueden | vuelven |
Note: querer, poder, and volver are stem-changing verbs — the stem vowel changes in all persons EXCEPT nosotros.
Practice questions for Key irregular verbs: hacer, querer, poder, volver
Quick recall flashcards
¿Qué deporte haces?
What sport do you do?
No puedo venir mañana.
I can't come tomorrow.