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Spanish grammar drills

Each drill gives you 60 seconds to answer as many sentences as you can. Every question has exactly one right answer, and every mistake shows you the rule. Pick the grammar point that trips you up most, and try to beat your best score.

60 SEC · 54 SENTENCES

Ser vs estar

Both mean “to be.” Learn when to use each, including the traps: events, death, and adjectives that change meaning.

Start drill →60 SEC · 40 SENTENCES

Preterite vs imperfect

Finished events or background scene? Train the choice with time clues, interruptions and habits.

Start drill →60 SEC · 40 SENTENCES

Por vs para

Goal or cause, destination or route, deadline or duration. Master the two Spanish words for “for.”

Start drill →60 SEC · 48 SENTENCES

Present-tense conjugation

Regular, stem-changing and irregular verbs. Get the full verb table whenever you miss one.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Subjunctive vs indicative

Quiero que vengas or quiero que vienes? Train the triggers: wishes, doubt, emotion, ojalá and cuando.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Reflexive verbs

Me levanto, te duchas, nos vamos. Match the reflexive pronoun to the subject without thinking.

Start drill →60 SEC · 44 NOUNS

Noun gender: el or la

El problema, la mano, el agua. Learn the patterns and the exceptions that catch everyone out.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

“Become” verbs

Se puso, se volvió or se hizo? Six Spanish ways to say “become,” and when each one fits.

Start drill →60 SEC · 34 SENTENCES

Quedar, llevar, tener, hacer

Four everyday verbs with many meanings: fit, wear, be left, meet up, be hungry, be hot.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Saber vs conocer

Two verbs for “to know.” Facts and skills take saber; people, places and things you’ve experienced take conocer.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Object pronouns: lo, la or le

Direct or indirect? Lo veo, le doy, se lo mando. Train the choice that trips up every intermediate learner.

Start drill →60 SEC · 42 SENTENCES

Irregular preterite

Fui, tuve, hice, dije, pude, vine. The strong preterites, ser and ir, dar and ver, and the spelling changes.

Start drill →60 SEC · 40 SENTENCES

Future tense

Tendré or teneré? Regular endings plus the twelve irregular stems: tendr-, har-, dir-, podr-, sabr-.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Conditional tense

Podría or podería? Polite requests, hypotheticals and reported speech, with the twelve irregular stems.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Gustar: me gusta or me gustan

Me gusta or me gustan? Le or les? Gustar and its friends: encantar, doler, interesar, faltar.

Start drill →60 SEC · 44 NUMBERS

Numbers

Quinientos or cincocientos? Cien or ciento? The teens, the tens, the hundreds and the thousands.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Present perfect

Ha hecho or ha hacido? Haber plus the participle, with the twelve irregular participles everyone needs.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Muy vs mucho

Muy mejor or mucho mejor? Very vs a lot, with the traps: mucha hambre, mucho calor, muchas gracias.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Imperfect tense

Éramos or fuimos? Two ending sets, the accented nosotros forms and the only three irregular verbs.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Present progressive

Leyendo or leiendo? Durmiendo or dormiendo? Regular gerunds, the -yendo verbs and the -ir stem changes.

Start drill →60 SEC · 40 SENTENCES

Commands (imperative)

Haz or hagas? Ve or vayas? Affirmative and negative tú commands, the eight irregulars, and usted commands.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Por qué vs porque

Why, because or the reason? Por qué, porque and porqué, including indirect questions like no sé por qué.

Start drill →60 SEC · 36 SENTENCES

Ser, estar or hay

Hay un banco or está un banco? There is, where things are, and the event rule: la fiesta es en mi casa.

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Why short, timed drills work

Knowing a rule and using it quickly are different skills. In a conversation you don’t have time to think through the rule for ser or estar; you need the right form to come out automatically. Short timed rounds build that speed. Because every mistake shows the rule straight away, you correct the misunderstanding while it’s fresh, instead of practising the error.

A good routine is one or two rounds a day on the drill you find hardest. Read your miss list after each round, then play again. When your score stops climbing, switch from tap mode to typing mode, which also trains spelling and accents.