List of Spanish irregular participles

In the Spanish language there are some verbs with irregular participles. There are also verbs with both regular and irregular participles, in which the irregular form is most used as an adjective, while the regular form tends to appear after haber to form the compound "perfect" tenses.

Agreement

When a participle is used as adjective, it must agree in gender and number with the noun modified:

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	-o	-a
Plural	-os	-as

Verbs with irregular participle

Verb	Participle	Meaning
abrir	abierto	'open(ed)'
cubrir	cubierto	'covered'
decir	dicho	'said'
descubrir	descubierto	'discovered'
escribir	escrito	'written'
-facer1	-fecho	—
hacer	hecho	'done, made'
morir	muerto	'died, dead'
poner	puesto	'put, placed'
pudrir	podrido	'rotten'
romper	roto	'broken'
-solver1	-suelto	'solved'
ver	visto	'seen'
volver	vuelto	'(re)turned'

¹The roots -facer and -solver appear only in prefixed forms, e.g. satisfacer, absolver. The adjective suelto means 'loose, free'.

Verbs derived from the stems in the table above have participles similar to those of their "parent" verbs — e.g. devolver → devuelto, describir → descrito. Note, however, that this pattern is not followed by corromper, whose participle is regular (corrompido), nor by bendecir and maldecir (see table below).

Verbs with regular and irregular participles

Verb	Regular Participle	Irregular Participle	Meaning
bendecir	bendecido	bendito	'blessed'
elegir	elegido	electo	'elected, selected'
freír	freído	frito	'fried'
imprimir	imprimido	impreso	'printed'
maldecir	maldecido	maldito	'damned'
poseer	poseído	poseso	'possessed'
proveer	proveído	provisto	'supplied'

See also

• Spanish verbs
• Spanish conjugation