Examples include Ir (to go), Ser (to be) and Jugar (to play). Howver be careful! Some verbs are irregular in the present which means that this formula will not work. (Not all verbs that were regular in the present tense are regular in the preterite.) The endings are a little confusing because the l, ella, and. For an ar verb that is regular in the preterite, use the endings from Table 1. So that is how you conjugate regular AR, IR and ER verbs in the present tense. To conjugate a regular verb in the preterite tense, remove the infinitive ending and add the appropriate endings. So the ER is once again removed and o, es, e, emos, eis and en are add to the verb to conjugate it with respect to the person doing the action. You all eat - Com eis (accent required on the e of eis) You will find that these endings are very similar to IR verbs but slightly diferent. This will work for any regular verb ending in IR in the present tense.įinally, on to verbs ending in ER. So the process is again similar, remove the IR and add o, es, e, imos, is and en. You all live - Viv is (accent required on the i of is) Let's use the verb vivir (to live) as an example to show the process. An easy way to remember this is by creating a simple rhyme of the endings o, as, a, amos,ais, an. Notice that the AR has been removed each time and a new ending has been added to conjugate the verb. You all speak - habl ais (accent required on the a of ais) to eat) of all verbs end in either AR, IR or ER. Let's begin with verbs ending in AR and let's take hablar (to speak) as an example. In Spanish, the infinitive (in English put 'to' infront of the verb to form the infinitive e.g. Now that you know the different persons, we can form regular verbs in the present tense. In English, these are: I, you, he/she/it, we, you all and they. These are the first, second and third person singluars and their plural forms. The same structure-the second verb staying in the infinitive-also happens in English as shown in the examples above (desires to teach / need to buy).Firstly, it is important to understand that for any verb conjugation there are six different persons. In each of the sentences below the first verb (v1) is conjugated while the second verb (v2) appears in the infinitive: Marta desea (v1) enseñar (v2) inglés. So “necesitas” is conjugated in the tú form with the corresponding -as as ending, but “trabajar” doesn’t change-it stays in the infinitive. When two verbs appear together without a change in subject, only the first verb is conjugated, and the second is left in the infinitive. This sentence has two verbs: “necesitar” and “trabajar”. #3 from above: Tú necesitas trabajar más. Mucho=much, a lot más=more nunca=never mañana=tomorrow hoy=today Let’s try out some sentences: use the verbs from the list above to translate the sentences below. When the context is clear you can omit the subject pronouns and the meaning doesn’t change:Ĭontext: you asked me about María’s Spanish and the above was my answer.Ĭontext: someone in your group asked me when you all are working and the above was my response. Note ( ojo): in the examples above, I put the subject pronouns (ella, Uds., etc.) in italics as a reminder that it is not necessary to use them if it is clear who we are speaking about from the context. The idea is the same for all subjects: take off the -ar and add the appropriate ending that matches the subject: Taking off the -ar and adding -as gives us the tú form, or “you” (familiar): -Ar verbs: tú form examples Infinitive We can do the same for all regular – ar ending verbs and we’ll have “I _”: -Ar verbs: yo form examples Infinitive The column in the table below “regular -ar verb endings” is what you need to make sentences with -ar ending verbs: Regular -ar ending verbsĪs we saw before, taking off the -ar ending of tomar and adding the “yo” form ending -o, gives us “I take”: tomo. The idea of “taking off the verb ending” and then adding other endings to give the verb a subject (yo, tú, ella, etc.) is fundamental to Spanish.
The conjugation pattern that we saw for the verb “ tomar = to take ” can be applied to all regular -ar ending verbs.
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