Working with verbs

How to find a verb, read its conjugation table, listen to it, and use it across the languages you know.

Finding a verb

Open Verbs from the navigation.
Type at least two letters in the Search verbs box: the list shows the verbs that start with them. Search looks at the verbs themselves, not their translations.
Tick Show only common verbs to keep the list to high-frequency verbs, a good default while you are starting out.
Signed in, tick Show only your verbs to list only the verbs already in your decks.

Each verb is listed by its infinitive, with its translation in your language, most frequent first. Scroll down and more verbs load.

A verb that is not listed

If nothing matches your search, Immersive offers Add it if it is a (language) verb. It checks the word: a known verb opens, a new verb is added and its conjugations are generated (refresh in a minute), and anything else gets a short explanation, such as “Type one word, letters only.”

Reading a conjugation table

Open a verb to see its page:

The nominal forms (infinitive, participles, gerund) appear at the top.
Every tense is on the page, grouped by mood, with every person listed. Under each table, one example sentence with its translation.
The tense menu at the top of the table lists every mood and tense: choose one to jump to its table. As you scroll, it shows the tense you are looking at.
Signed in, Pronoun chooses how third-person forms are shown (masculine, feminine, or both). Immersive remembers your choice.

The speaker next to a form plays it where a recording already exists; every form’s own page can play it.

A verb whose tables are still being prepared says so: signed in, the conjugations are generated and appear after a refresh.

A single form

Every form in the table is a link. Open one to get its own page:

The form, with a speaker, and its verb, mood, and tense.
The other persons of this tense, one tap apart.
Examples using that exact form, with translations. When there are none yet and you are signed in, Immersive writes one.
Public decks that practise the form.

Across your languages

Signed in, a form’s page shows Across your languages: the same tense and person aligned in the language you are learning and the other languages you know, ordered so that neighbouring columns are the most similar. Seeing falo – hablo – parlo – parle in one row is often all it takes for a form to stick. It appears when at least one of your recorded languages (your display language counts) has the matching form.

Add a comparison card makes it a review card in a deck called Bridge comparisons for the language, scheduled like any other card.

Example sentences work as in the reader: tap a word for its translation and audio.

In your decks and sentences

Signed in, a verb page (and a form page) also shows two sections about your own material:

In your decks: the decks holding a card of the verb (or of that exact form), with how many cards of it each deck has and how many are due. Open a deck from its row.
In your sentences: sentences from your documents and your vocabulary that use a form of the verb, the form in bold; Show more lists the rest. The source line opens the document at that sentence.

Each section keeps its heading when there is nothing yet, so you know where things will gather. Signed out, the page shows a single prompt to log in instead.

Adding a verb to a deck

Choose Add to a deck at the top of a verb page and pick one of your decks in that language. The deck’s workspace opens on its verb form with the verb already selected (and the tense too, from a form page): choose the tenses you want and create the cards. Nothing is added until you do. With no deck in that language yet, the menu offers Create a new deck.

Practising verbs in decks

The Verbs section is a reference; practice happens in your decks. When you add cards to a deck you can pick verbs and tenses and choose between one card per person or the whole tense table on a single card. See Creating decks.