Romper is a regular -er verb in Spanish with one irregular form: its past participle, roto.
Practice romper free →Romper means 'to break', and like several common verbs it conjugates regularly except for an irregular past participle: roto ('broken'), so 'I have broken' is he roto. Rompí el vaso (I broke the glass), se ha roto la pierna (he has broken his leg). It also appears in romper con alguien ('to break up with someone') and romper a llorar ('to burst into tears'). Because accidents and breakages come up in narrative and past-tense practice, romper is useful — and remembering roto in the perfect tense avoids an easy slip.
Quick facts
Romper (to break) is an irregular -er verb.
Real sentences across different tenses — the kind of thing you'd actually say or write.
Rompí el vaso (I broke the glass).
Irregular participle: he roto.
Romper con alguien (to break up with someone).
Romper a llorar (to burst into tears).
Fixed expressions worth knowing — they come up in listening, reading and writing tasks.
Idiomatic expressions
Irregular past participle: roto, not *rompido. Every other tense of romper is regular.
Irregular past participle — same as in the present perfect: había roto.
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 romper now →Three questions, no account needed. Type the form, then press Enter or tap Check.
yo: rompo, tú: rompes, él: rompe, nosotros: rompemos, vosotros: rompéis, ellos: rompen
Romper follows the regular -er pattern in every simple tense. Only its past participle is irregular: roto.
The past participle is roto (he roto) and the gerund is rompiendo (estoy rompiendo).
Verbs that are easy to confuse with romper or that behave like it.
Romper 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.