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It ",[61,62,63],"strong",{},"manufactures"," them from nouns and adjectives, using a small kit of endings that follow rules you can learn to read. Meet ",[61,66,67],{},"real"," (real) and you can predict ",[61,70,71],{},"realizar"," (to carry out, to realise). Meet ",[61,74,75],{},"oscuro"," (dark) and you can predict ",[61,78,79],{},"oscurecer"," (to grow dark). The base word sits inside the built verb like a stem inside a flower, and once you can spot it, a verb you have never seen becomes half-understood on sight.",[57,82,83,84,87,88,87,91,94,95,98,99,102,103,106,107,110],{},"There are four main suffixes - ",[61,85,86],{},"-izar",", ",[61,89,90],{},"-ecer",[61,92,93],{},"-ificar"," and ",[61,96,97],{},"-ear"," - and two ",[61,100,101],{},"circumfixes"," that clamp a prefix and an ending around the base at once. This page takes them one at a time. The payoff is twofold: you can ",[61,104,105],{},"decode"," unfamiliar verbs by reading the base, and you can ",[61,108,109],{},"coin"," ones that a Spanish speaker will follow.",[112,113,115],"h2",{"id":114},"the-patterns-at-a-glance","The patterns at a glance",[117,118,119,135],"table",{},[120,121,122],"thead",{},[123,124,125,129,132],"tr",{},[126,127,128],"th",{},"Pattern",[126,130,131],{},"Meaning",[126,133,134],{},"Base -> verb",[136,137,138,157,175,193,212,233],"tbody",{},[123,139,140,145,148],{},[141,142,143],"td",{},[61,144,86],{},[141,146,147],{},"make into, turn into",[141,149,150,151,153,154],{},"real -> ",[61,152,71],{},", memoria -> ",[61,155,156],{},"memorizar",[123,158,159,163,166],{},[141,160,161],{},[61,162,90],{},[141,164,165],{},"come to be, cause to be (inceptive)",[141,167,168,169,171,172],{},"oscuro -> ",[61,170,79],{},", flor -> ",[61,173,174],{},"florecer",[123,176,177,181,183],{},[141,178,179],{},[61,180,93],{},[141,182,147],{},[141,184,185,186,189,190],{},"claro -> ",[61,187,188],{},"clarificar",", simple -> ",[61,191,192],{},"simplificar",[123,194,195,199,202],{},[141,196,197],{},[61,198,97],{},[141,200,201],{},"do repeatedly, casual or iterative action",[141,203,204,205,208,209],{},"golpe -> ",[61,206,207],{},"golpear",", telefono -> ",[61,210,211],{},"telefonear",[123,213,214,219,222],{},[141,215,216],{},[61,217,218],{},"a-...-ar",[141,220,221],{},"put into a state",[141,223,224,225,228,229,232],{},"tierra -> ",[61,226,227],{},"aterrizar",", gordo -> ",[61,230,231],{},"engordar"," (en-)",[123,234,235,240,243],{},[141,236,237],{},[61,238,239],{},"en-\u002Fem-...-ar\u002F-ecer",[141,241,242],{},"bring into a state",[141,244,245,246,249,250],{},"rojo -> ",[61,247,248],{},"enrojecer",", botella -> ",[61,251,252],{},"embotellar",[112,254,256],{"id":255},"izar-make-it-into-that","-izar: make it into that",[57,258,259,261,262,265,266,269,270,273,274,277],{},[61,260,86],{}," is the workhorse, the most ",[61,263,264],{},"productive"," ending of the lot, and the standard Spanish match for English ",[61,267,268],{},"-ise \u002F -ize",". 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If you meet a long verb ending ",[61,349,86],{},", strip the ending and look for the noun or adjective underneath: it will usually tell you the meaning.",[112,352,354],{"id":353},"ecer-come-to-be-cause-to-be","-ecer: come to be, cause to be",[57,356,357,359,360,273,363,366,367,370,371,374],{},[61,358,90],{}," builds a single verb meaning ",[61,361,362],{},"to come to be",[61,364,365],{},"to cause to be"," a quality, and it very often carries an ",[61,368,369],{},"inceptive"," flavour - a change that is ",[61,372,373],{},"beginning"," to happen rather than one already finished.",[279,376,377,385,395,405,414],{},[282,378,379,381,382,384],{},[61,380,75],{}," (dark) -> ",[61,383,79],{}," (to grow dark)",[282,386,387,390,391,394],{},[61,388,389],{},"favor"," (favour) -> ",[61,392,393],{},"favorecer"," (to favour)",[282,396,397,400,401,404],{},[61,398,399],{},"noche"," (night) -> ",[61,402,403],{},"anochecer"," (to get dark, night to fall)",[282,406,407,410,411,413],{},[61,408,409],{},"flor"," (flower) -> ",[61,412,174],{}," (to blossom)",[282,415,416,419,420,423],{},[61,417,418],{},"pobre"," (poor) -> ",[61,421,422],{},"empobrecer"," (to make poor, to grow poor)",[57,425,426,427,429,430,433,434,437,438,87,440,87,443,87,446,87,449,452,453,458,459,461],{},"Where a dedicated ",[61,428,90],{}," verb exists, it is usually the tidiest way to say the change, and you should reach for it over a multi-word construction - the same instinct that prefers a plain reflexive to ",[61,431,432],{},"ponerse"," plus an adjective. For the changes that have ",[61,435,436],{},"no"," single built verb, Spanish falls back on the family of becoming verbs (",[61,439,432],{},[61,441,442],{},"volverse",[61,444,445],{},"hacerse",[61,447,448],{},"convertirse en",[61,450,451],{},"llegar a ser","). Those are covered in full on the ",[454,455,457],"a",{"href":456},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fgrammar\u002Fverbs-of-becoming","verbs of becoming"," page; treat ",[61,460,90],{}," as the one-word shortcut for the cases where the language happens to give you one.",[112,463,465],{"id":464},"ificar-make-into-turn-into","-ificar: make into, turn into",[57,467,468,470,471,473,474,273,477,479,480,483],{},[61,469,93],{}," overlaps in meaning with ",[61,472,86],{}," - ",[61,475,476],{},"to make",[61,478,276],{}," - but it attaches to its own set of bases and cannot be swapped in freely. It descends from the Latin ",[61,481,482],{},"facere"," (to make), and you can feel the \"make\" in it.",[279,485,486,495,504,514,524],{},[282,487,488,491,492,494],{},[61,489,490],{},"claro"," (clear) -> ",[61,493,188],{}," (to clarify)",[282,496,497,500,501,503],{},[61,498,499],{},"simple"," (simple) -> ",[61,502,192],{}," (to simplify)",[282,505,506,509,510,513],{},[61,507,508],{},"puro"," (pure) -> ",[61,511,512],{},"purificar"," (to purify)",[282,515,516,519,520,523],{},[61,517,518],{},"justo"," (just, fair) -> ",[61,521,522],{},"justificar"," (to justify)",[282,525,526,529,530,533],{},[61,527,528],{},"identidad"," (identity) -> ",[61,531,532],{},"identificar"," (to identify)",[57,535,536,537,539,540,542,543,546,547,549,550,546,552,554],{},"There is no rule that predicts which adjective takes ",[61,538,86],{}," and which takes ",[61,541,93],{},"; it is fixed by usage. ",[61,544,545],{},"Claro"," goes to ",[61,548,188],{},", not \"clarizar\"; ",[61,551,303],{},[61,553,307],{},", not \"generificar\". Learn the pairs as you meet them, but let the ending tell you the meaning is \"make it that\".",[112,556,558],{"id":557},"ear-do-it-repeatedly-casually-again-and-again","-ear: do it repeatedly, casually, again and again",[57,560,561,563,564,567,568,87,571,273,574,577],{},[61,562,97],{}," is the odd one out. 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",[61,661,97],{}," is also the ending Spanish reaches for first when it borrows a foreign verb, which is how the English \"click\" became ",[61,664,629],{},". If you must coin a casual or repeated action verb, ",[61,667,97],{}," is your safest bet.",[112,670,672],{"id":671},"the-circumfixes-a-ar-and-en-em","The circumfixes: a-...-ar and en-\u002Fem-...",[57,674,675,676,679,680,683],{},"A ",[61,677,678],{},"circumfix"," wraps a prefix and a verb ending around the base ",[61,681,682],{},"at the same time",", so the base never surfaces as a plain verb by itself. Two are worth knowing.",[57,685,686,688,689,692],{},[61,687,218],{}," takes a noun or adjective and makes a verb of ",[61,690,691],{},"putting something into that state",".",[279,694,695,704],{},[282,696,697,700,701,703],{},[61,698,699],{},"tierra"," (earth, land) -> ",[61,702,227],{}," (to land) - what a plane does",[282,705,706,709,710,713],{},[61,707,708],{},"cara"," (face) -> ",[61,711,712],{},"encarar"," (to face, to confront)",[57,715,716,273,719,722,723,692],{},[61,717,718],{},"en-\u002Fem-...-ar",[61,720,721],{},"en-\u002Fem-...-ecer"," is the busier of the two, building a verb of ",[61,724,725],{},"bringing something into a new state",[279,727,728,737,746,756,766,775],{},[282,729,730,733,734,736],{},[61,731,732],{},"gordo"," (fat) -> ",[61,735,231],{}," (to get fat, to fatten)",[282,738,739,742,743,745],{},[61,740,741],{},"rojo"," (red) -> ",[61,744,248],{}," (to turn red)",[282,747,748,751,752,755],{},[61,749,750],{},"rico"," (rich) -> ",[61,753,754],{},"enriquecer"," (to enrich, to get rich)",[282,757,758,761,762,765],{},[61,759,760],{},"jaula"," (cage) -> ",[61,763,764],{},"enjaular"," (to cage)",[282,767,768,771,772,774],{},[61,769,770],{},"botella"," (bottle) -> ",[61,773,252],{}," (to bottle)",[282,776,777,419,779,781],{},[61,778,418],{},[61,780,422],{}," (to impoverish, to grow poor)",[57,783,784,785,788,789,273,791,794,795,798,799,94,801,803,804,94,806,808,809,94,812,815,816,94,818,820,821,823],{},"The one spelling rule to remember: the prefix is written ",[61,786,787],{},"em-"," before ",[61,790,57],{},[61,792,793],{},"b",", and ",[61,796,797],{},"en-"," everywhere else. So it is ",[61,800,422],{},[61,802,252],{},", but ",[61,805,248],{},[61,807,231],{}," - the same rule that gives Spanish ",[61,810,811],{},"empezar",[61,813,814],{},"embargo",". Some of these, like ",[61,817,754],{},[61,819,422],{},", stack the circumfix and the ",[61,822,90],{}," ending together, doubling down on the \"bring into a state\" idea.",[112,825,827],{"id":826},"reading-a-built-verb-backwards","Reading a built verb backwards",[57,829,830,831,834],{},"The practical skill is ",[61,832,833],{},"reversal",". Faced with an unfamiliar verb, peel the ending off and hunt for the base:",[279,836,837,848,858,867],{},[282,838,839,841,842,844,845,847],{},[61,840,330],{}," -> strip ",[61,843,86],{}," -> ",[61,846,326],{}," -> \"make modern\".",[282,849,850,841,852,854,855,857],{},[61,851,403],{},[61,853,90],{},", spot ",[61,856,399],{}," -> \"night falls\".",[282,859,860,841,862,844,864,866],{},[61,861,512],{},[61,863,93],{},[61,865,508],{}," -> \"make pure\".",[282,868,869,841,871,844,874,876],{},[61,870,764],{},[61,872,873],{},"en-...-ar",[61,875,760],{}," -> \"put in a cage\".",[57,878,879,880,883],{},"Do that a few times and the endings stop being noise and start being ",[61,881,882],{},"signposts",". You will guess the meaning of verbs you have never studied, and you will occasionally build one of your own that lands.",[112,885,887],{"id":886},"common-mistakes-english-speakers-make","Common mistakes English speakers make",[57,889,890,893,894,896,897,899],{},[61,891,892],{},"Assuming -izar and -ificar are interchangeable."," They share a meaning but not their bases. It is ",[61,895,188],{},", not \"clarizar\", and ",[61,898,307],{},", not \"generificar\". The ending is fixed per word by usage, so learn the actual verb, not a formula for swapping endings.",[57,901,902,905,906,788,908,273,910,650,912,87,914,916,917,692],{},[61,903,904],{},"Forgetting the em- before p and b."," The prefix softens to ",[61,907,787],{},[61,909,57],{},[61,911,793],{},[61,913,422],{},[61,915,252],{},", never \"enpobrecer\" or \"enbotellar\". Everywhere else it stays ",[61,918,797],{},[57,920,921,924,925,928,929,931,932,934,935,937],{},[61,922,923],{},"Dropping accents off the base."," The base word keeps its own stress logic, and the built verb takes a fresh accent by the normal rules. ",[61,926,927],{},"Teléfono"," loses its written accent in ",[61,930,211],{}," because the stress has moved; ",[61,933,321],{}," loses it in ",[61,936,317],{},". Do not carry the base's accent mark blindly into the verb.",[57,939,940,943,944,946],{},[61,941,942],{},"Coining when a standard verb exists."," The endings are productive, but a dictionary verb often already covers the idea. Use the patterns first to ",[61,945,105],{},", and only reach for invention when you are sure no established verb is sitting there waiting.",[57,948,949,950,87,952,87,954,87,956,958],{},"Learn to read the base inside the verb, and Spanish stops being a wall of separate words. ",[61,951,86],{},[61,953,90],{},[61,955,93],{},[61,957,97],{}," and the circumfixes are not trivia - they are the joints the language bends at, and knowing them turns thousands of verbs from strangers into relatives.",[112,960,962],{"id":961},"see-also","See also",[279,964,965,971,979],{},[282,966,967,970],{},[454,968,969],{"href":456},"Verbs of becoming"," - ponerse, volverse, hacerse, convertirse en and llegar a ser, the multi-word way to say \"become\" where no single built verb like empobrecer or enriquecer exists.",[282,972,973,974,978],{},"The ",[454,975,977],{"href":976},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fverbs","Spanish verbs page"," conjugates realizar, organizar, oscurecer and the rest across all tenses.",[282,980,973,981,985],{},[454,982,984],{"href":983},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fgrammar","Spanish grammar cheatsheet"," has the verb-building endings on one card.",{"title":987,"searchDepth":988,"depth":988,"links":989},"",2,[990,991,992,993,994,995,996,997,998],{"id":114,"depth":988,"text":115},{"id":255,"depth":988,"text":256},{"id":353,"depth":988,"text":354},{"id":464,"depth":988,"text":465},{"id":557,"depth":988,"text":558},{"id":671,"depth":988,"text":672},{"id":826,"depth":988,"text":827},{"id":886,"depth":988,"text":887},{"id":961,"depth":988,"text":962},"B2","The productive Spanish suffixes and circumfixes that turn nouns and adjectives into verbs: -izar, -ecer, -ificar, -ear, plus the a-...-ar and en-\u002Fem-... patterns.",[1002,1022],{"type":1003,"instructions":1004,"items":1005},"fill-blank","Build a verb from the base word in brackets using the suffix or pattern named. Give the infinitive with full accents.",[1006,1008,1010,1012,1014,1016,1018,1020],{"prompt":1007,"answer":71,"hint":67},"From real, make the verb meaning to carry out. (add -izar)",{"prompt":1009,"answer":156,"hint":294},"From memoria, make the verb meaning to memorise. (add -izar)",{"prompt":1011,"answer":79,"hint":75},"From oscuro, make the verb meaning to grow dark. (add -ecer)",{"prompt":1013,"answer":192,"hint":499},"From simple, make the verb meaning to simplify. (add -ificar)",{"prompt":1015,"answer":207,"hint":584},"From golpe, make the verb meaning to hit. (add -ear)",{"prompt":1017,"answer":231,"hint":732},"From gordo, make the verb meaning to get fat. (add en-...-ar)",{"prompt":1019,"answer":754,"hint":750},"From rico, make the verb meaning to enrich. (add en-...-ecer)",{"prompt":1021,"answer":422,"hint":418},"From pobre, make the verb meaning to make poor. (add em-...-ecer)",{"type":1023,"instructions":1024,"items":1025},"which-one","Choose the correctly built verb for each base and meaning.",[1026,1030,1034,1038,1042,1046],{"prompt":1027,"answer":188,"options":1028},"From claro, meaning to clarify:",[188,1029],"clarizar",{"prompt":1031,"answer":307,"options":1032},"From general, meaning to generalise:",[307,1033],"generalecer",{"prompt":1035,"answer":174,"options":1036},"From flor, meaning to blossom:",[174,1037],"florizar",{"prompt":1039,"answer":248,"options":1040},"From rojo, meaning to turn red:",[248,1041],"arrojecer",{"prompt":1043,"answer":252,"options":1044},"From botella, meaning to bottle:",[252,1045],"enbotellar",{"prompt":1047,"answer":211,"options":1048},"From telefono, meaning to phone:",[211,1049],"telefonizar","md",[1052,1055,1058,1061],{"q":1053,"a":1054},"What does the Spanish suffix -izar mean and how is it used?","The suffix -izar turns a noun or adjective into a verb meaning to make into or to turn into that thing or quality. It is the most productive of all the verb-building endings, and it is the usual Spanish equivalent of English -ise or -ize. From real (real) you get realizar (to carry out, to realise); from memoria (memory), memorizar (to memorise); from general (general), generalizar (to generalise); from moderno (modern), modernizar (to modernise); from utilidad (usefulness), utilizar (to use). Because it is so productive, Spanish keeps coining new -izar verbs from borrowed and technical bases, which is why so many modern and scientific verbs end this way.",{"q":1056,"a":1057},"What is the difference between -ecer and the becoming verbs like ponerse and volverse?","The suffix -ecer builds a single verb meaning to come to be or to cause to be a quality, usually with an inceptive sense of a change starting to happen: oscuro (dark) gives oscurecer (to grow dark), pobre (poor) gives empobrecer (to make poor), flor (flower) gives florecer (to blossom). Where a dedicated -ecer verb exists, it is often the neatest choice, just as a plain reflexive can beat ponerse plus an adjective. The multi-word becoming verbs - ponerse, volverse, hacerse, convertirse en, llegar a ser - cover the many changes that have no single built verb. See the verbs of becoming page for that system; treat -ecer as the one-word shortcut where the language offers one.",{"q":1059,"a":1060},"How do the Spanish circumfixes a-...-ar and en-\u002Fem-...-ar work?","A circumfix wraps a prefix and a verb ending around the base at the same time, so the base never appears as a plain verb on its own. The a-...-ar pattern takes a noun or adjective and makes a verb of putting something into that state: tierra (land) gives aterrizar (to land), from Latin roots. The en-\u002Fem-...-ar or en-\u002Fem-...-ecer pattern is even more common: gordo (fat) gives engordar (to get fat), rico (rich) gives enriquecer (to enrich), jaula (cage) gives enjaular (to cage), botella (bottle) gives embotellar (to bottle). The prefix is spelled em- before p or b, so it is empobrecer and embotellar, but enrojecer and engordar. The shared idea is to bring something into a new state.",{"q":1062,"a":1063},"Can I invent Spanish verbs using these endings?","Within reason, yes, and native speakers do it constantly. The endings are productive, meaning they still generate fresh verbs from new bases: from the English click Spanish coined clickear (to click), and telefono (telephone) long ago gave telefonear (to phone). If you attach -ear to a noun for a casual or repeated action, or -izar to make something into a quality, a listener will usually understand you even if the word is not yet in the dictionary. The caution is that a standard verb often already exists, so it is worth checking before you coin: the built verb is a decoding tool first and a last-resort creative tool second.","higher","Spanish does not memorise every verb one at a time. It builds them, on the spot, from nouns and adjectives, using a small kit of endings that a learner can learn to recognise and even to coin. Take real (real), add -izar, and you have realizar (to realise, to carry out). Take memoria (memory) and you have memorizar (to memorise). Take oscuro (dark) and you get oscurecer (to grow dark); take claro (clear) and you get clarificar (to clarify); take golpe (blow) and you get golpear (to hit). There are four main suffixes - -izar, -ecer, -ificar and -ear - and two circumfixes that wrap a prefix and an ending around the base at once, a-...-ar and en-\u002Fem-...-ar\u002F-ecer, as in tierra to aterrizar (to land) or rojo to enrojecer (to turn red). None of this is decoration. Once you can see the base word inside a built verb, you can decode a verb you have never met, and once you know what each ending signals, you can build one a Spanish speaker will understand even if it is not in the dictionary. 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