Trabajar is a regular -ar verb in Spanish.
Practice trabajar free →Trabajar means 'to work', and it is a fully regular -ar verb that anchors the jobs, ambitions and work-experience topics. Trabajo en una tienda (I work in a shop), trabajé el verano pasado (I worked last summer). Because it is regular, it is an ideal verb for drilling the -ar endings cleanly. A useful structure is trabajar de + job (trabajo de camarero, I work as a waiter), which reads more naturally than a word-for-word translation. As with other -ar verbs, mind the preterite accents (trabajé, trabajó) — small marks that examiners notice.
Quick facts
Trabajar (to work) is a regular -ar verb.
Real sentences across different tenses — the kind of thing you'd actually say or write.
Trabajo en una tienda (I work in a shop).
Trabajar de + job: trabajo de camarero (I work as a waiter).
Trabajé el verano pasado (I worked last summer).
Trabajar duro (to work hard).
Fixed expressions worth knowing — they come up in listening, reading and writing tasks.
Trabajar is fully regular, so it's an ideal verb for drilling the -ar endings. Watch the preterite accents (trabajé, trabajó) and remember trabajar de means 'to work as': trabajo de camarero = I work as a waiter.
trabajar is a regular -ar verb — it follows the standard -ar pattern in every tense. That makes it a good one to drill: if you know trabajar, you know the template for all regular -ar 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 trabajar now →Three questions. Press Enter to check each answer.
yo: trabajo, tú: trabajas, él: trabaja, nosotros: trabajamos, vosotros: trabajáis, ellos: trabajan
Trabajar is a regular -ar verb following the standard -ar pattern.
Use trabajar in multiple tenses to show range — present, preterite and future at minimum. This is a key criterion for higher GCSE marks.
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. Trabajar 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.