Verb Gym: conjugation practice

A short drill of verb forms, typed and graded as you go. Verb Gym drills the tenses you need at your level, brings back the forms you miss, and works without an account.

Part of the Word Holder user guide.

Start practising

Pick your language to open a drill straight away. No sign-up is needed.

Inside the app, open Games in the menu and choose Verb Gym. It drills the language you are learning; switch language in the header to drill another one. English learners find Verb Gym there too.

How a round works

A drill is a short, fixed set of rounds; the card says how many before you start. A round shows one verb, its English meaning, and what to produce — for example congiuntivo presente · lui/lei. Type the form and press Check.

You can type the form with or without its pronoun. In the Italian and Spanish subjunctive, che / que in front of it is optional.
The Italian passato prossimo and the Spanish pretérito perfecto are asked whole, auxiliary included: è arrivato, he comido. The participle on its own is a miss, and the verdict says the auxiliary was missing.
Letter case, extra spaces and the style of apostrophe don't matter. The letters and accents do.
A form that is right except for an accent counts as correct, with a note to check the spelling. So does German ss typed for ß.
If what you typed is a real form of the verb but not the one asked for, Verb Gym tells you which form you wrote.
Show answer reveals the form. It counts as a miss, so the form comes back later.

After each answer you can open the verb's full conjugation table, see what the verb means, or report a problem if a form or translation looks wrong. If you miss three of the last four, Verb Gym offers to start again from an easier level or to drill regular verbs only.

Languages and tenses

Every form Verb Gym asks for comes from Word Holder's conjugation tables — it never guesses a form. Your level decides which of these tenses come up; new tenses unlock as your level rises.

Italian — presente, passato prossimo, imperativo, imperfetto, futuro semplice, condizionale presente, passato remoto, congiuntivo presente, congiuntivo imperfetto
Spanish — presente, pretérito perfecto, imperativo, pretérito imperfecto, pretérito indefinido, futuro simple, condicional simple, presente de subjuntivo, imperfecto de subjuntivo
French — présent, imparfait, futur simple, conditionnel présent, subjonctif présent, impératif, passé simple
German — Präsens, Präteritum, Futur I, Konjunktiv I, Konjunktiv II, Imperativ
Dutch — present and past tense (ik, jij, hij)
English — simple past and past participle, where English irregularity lives (went / gone)

Spanish has an Include vosotros setting. It is on by default; turn it off to practise Latin American Spanish without the vosotros forms.

Your level

The first time, choose where to start: Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. These are starting points, not separate courses. After that a Your level slider shows the hardest tense you are reaching, and you can move it yourself.

With Adjust to my answers on, your level moves up and down with your results. Turn it off to keep the level where you put it. Difficulty combines the tense, how hard the verb is, and the person asked.

Choose what to drill

Open Change settings on the drill to narrow it down:

Tenses — with all on, your level decides. Turn some off to drill only those.
Verb types — regular verbs, irregular verbs, or both. Irregular includes stem- and spelling-changing verbs.
Prefer verbs I've recently learned — on by default: verbs you have looked up in Word Holder lead the drill, and the rest comes from a curriculum of common verbs.

Settings apply from your next drill; the questions already on screen stay as they are.

Missed forms come back

Every form you miss returns in a later round of the same tense, ahead of new forms but at most four in any ten rounds. A missed regular ending can come back on another verb with the same pattern. Get it right on two different days and it is cleared.

After the last round

Your score and whether your level went up, down or stayed.
The forms you missed, each with your answer next to the correct one.
Keep these verbs — add a verb to your words so it comes back in your daily reviews.
… more starts another drill of the same length with the same settings, or read something in your language and come back with Back to Verb Gym.

Account and progress

Verb Gym works without an account. Your level, settings and missed forms are kept for this browser from the first drill. Create a free account to keep them across devices; your progress and saved words come with you. Kept verbs count towards your saved-words limit.

Look up a single verb

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Found a wrong form?

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