Comer means 'to eat', and it is the standard model for regular -er verbs. Master its endings and you can conjugate a huge family of verbs that behave the same way. It comes up constantly in everyday Spanish — meals, food, restaurants, daily routine — so it earns its place among the first verbs to learn. Comer is fully regular, which makes it ideal for drilling the -er pattern until it is automatic. The detail to watch is the preterite, where the yo and él forms take accents (comí, comió); dropping them is a common way to lose easy marks. Because food is a guaranteed GCSE topic, fluent use of comer across tenses is reliably useful.
Quick facts
Comer (to eat) is a regular -er verb.
Real sentences across different tenses — the kind of thing you'd actually say or write.
Como fruta todos los días (I eat fruit every day).
In Spain, comer often means to have lunch specifically.
Comí en un restaurante (I ate in a restaurant).
The textbook regular -er verb for drilling the pattern.
Fixed expressions worth knowing — they come up in listening, reading and writing tasks.
Comer is a model regular -er verb, so it's worth knowing perfectly. The one thing to watch is the preterite: comí, comiste, comió — the yo and él forms carry accents (comí, comió) and dropping them changes the meaning or loses marks.
comer is a regular -er verb — it follows the standard -er pattern in every tense. That makes it a good one to drill: if you know comer, you know the template for all regular -er verbs.
Type conjugations from memory and get instant feedback. That's how you actually build the automatic recall the exam needs — not from reading tables.
Practice comer now →Three questions, no account needed. Type the form, then press Enter or tap Check.
yo: como, tú: comes, él: come, nosotros: comemos, vosotros: coméis, ellos: comen
The past participle is comido (he comido) and the gerund is comiendo (estoy comiendo).
Comer is on the AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE Spanish vocabulary lists. Compare the exam boards.
Written by Daniel Holmes for GCSE & A-Level Spanish students.