Spanish Lessons Online – Spanish Verb Conjuration – Regular Verbs
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Spanish Lessons Online – Spanish Verb Conjuration – Regular Verbs
It is very easy to identify a verb in English, since in their infinitive form they all have the word “to” in front of them. For example, ‘to read’, ‘to speak’, and ‘to run’. Luckily if you in Spanish there is also an easy way to recognize the verbs. They all end in ‘ar’,'er’ or ‘ir’.
In order to conjugate a regular verb in Spanish all you have to do is drop the endings (the before mentioned, ‘ar’,'er’ or ‘ir’) and then add the appropriate endings. The endings are based on two things.
The first is the subject of the sentence. The correlation of English subject and Spanish subjects are as follows. Keep in mind that in Spanish there are different ways to address people when you are speaking in a formal way and an informal way, and there are also differing ways to addressing men, women or groups. If there is a group with 1 man and 1000000 women, you still address them as a male group.
SUBJECTS
I –> yo
You(Informal/Singular) –> tu
You (Formal/Singular)–> usted
He –> el
She –> ella
We –> nosotos
Them (Masculine) –> ellos
Them (Feminine) –> ellas
You All –> ustedes
The second thing you need to do is simply drop the ending of the verb (‘ar’,'er’ or ‘ir) to be left with the root. Once that is done you have to add the appropriate endings depending on what how the verb ended. Here are some examples for every type of Regular verb.
ENDING ‘AR’
Examples: Amar(to love),estudiar (to study), hablar (to talk)
Conjugations (with Hablar):
Yo Hablo –> ending becomes an ‘o’
Tu Hablas –> ending becomes an ‘as’
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