-CER |
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| All verbs ending in -cer conjugate like nacer, shown below, except the regular verbs coercer, ejercer, (con)vencer and mercer, for which see the note #1 below and the radical-changing verbs escocer, (re)torcer, for which see note #2 below. In all other verbs ending in -cer c>zc before a or o. All forms are as for a regular -er verb except for the following (bracketed forms are regular): | ||
Imperative: |
(usted) nazca, (usteded) nazcan | |
Present indicative: |
nazco, (naces, nace, nacemos, nacéis, nacen) | |
Present subjunctive: |
nazca, nazcas, nazca, nazcamos, nazcáis, nazcan | |
Note #1 |
Infinitives ending in -zar, -cer and -cir. | |
| z is spelt c before i or e. | ||
| c is spelt z before a or o (although in the majority of verbs ending in -cer, c becomes zc before a or o). | ||
Note #2 |
Cocer (to boil), torcer (to twist), destorcer (to untwist) and retorcer (to wring) , conjugate exactly like mover (to move) except for the predictable spelling change c>z before a, o (bracketed forms are regular). | |
Imperative: |
(tu) cuece, (usted) cueza, (usteded) cuecen | |
Present indicative: |
cuezo, cueces, (cocemos) (cocéis), cuecen | |
Present subjunctive: |
cueza, cuezas, cueza, (cozamos), (cozáis), cuezan | |