Salir is one of the most important irregular verbs in Spanish — it appears in virtually every GCSE and A-Level task.
Practice salir free →Salir means 'to go out', 'to leave' and 'to come out', and you will use it constantly to talk about plans and social life. It is irregular in the yo form (salgo) and in the future and conditional stems (saldré, saldría); elsewhere it behaves regularly. Salir con means to go out with someone, and salir de marks leaving a place. Because going out with friends is a guaranteed GCSE topic, having salir automatic across tenses is genuinely useful for the speaking and writing papers.
Quick facts
Salir (to leave / go out) is a high-frequency irregular -ir verb.
Real sentences across different tenses — the kind of thing you'd actually say or write.
Salgo con mis amigos (I go out with my friends).
Salir de: salgo de casa a las ocho (I leave home at eight).
Salir con someone: sale con María (he's going out with María).
Salir bien/mal: el examen salió bien (the exam went well).
Fixed expressions worth knowing — they come up in listening, reading and writing tasks.
Idiomatic expressions
The yo present is salgo (not *salo). Future/conditional stem is saldr-: saldré, saldría. Salir bien/mal means to go well/badly — very useful in GCSE essays about events.
Only the yo form is irregular. All other forms follow regular -ir endings on the stem sal-.
Irregular future stem: saldr-. Apply regular future endings to saldr-.
Uses the same irregular stem as the future: saldr-.
Irregular tú imperative: sal (not sale). Other forms: salga, salgamos, salid, salgan.
Uses the irregular future stem saldr-: habré salido.
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 salir now →Three questions. Press Enter to check each answer.
yo: salgo, tú: sales, él: sale, nosotros: salimos, vosotros: salís, ellos: salen
Salir is irregular.
Use salir in multiple tenses to show range — present, preterite and future at minimum. This is a key criterion for higher GCSE marks.
Verbs that are easy to confuse with salir or that behave like it.
This reference is written for UK GCSE and A-Level Spanish learners and their teachers. It is designed for exam revision: every form is checked against standard conjugation rules, and the examples reflect the registers and topics that come up in the AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas specifications. Salir is a high-frequency verb and appears often in exam papers. For active recall, use the free practice tool rather than only reading the tables.