Sunday, 2 March 2014

Conjugando verbos regulares en presente - Present tense in Spanish

Hola a todos,

For the ones just starting your language learning process, you may have noticed that we tend to change and conjugate our verbs a lot. The wonderful thing about conjugating verbs in Spanish is that by doing it we give our audience most of the information needed to understand our message; for example a verb can contain the information about the person who you are talking about, the action and the tense or time.

Regular verbs in Spanish follow a structure pattern; all verbs in Spanish finish in AR, ER and IR. Therefore, in order to conjugate them you need to replace that part of the verb for the following endings. Check this chart with examples included, we are going to use the verbs hablar (to talk), comer (to eat) and vivir (to live)


Pronombre
AR
ER
IR
Yo
o
hablo
o
como
                o


             vivo 
as
hablas
es
comes
es
vives
Él / Ella
a
habla
e
come
e
vive
Usted
a
habla
e
come
e
vive
Nosotros
amos
hablamos
emos
comemos
imos
vivimos
Ustedes
an
hablan
en
comen
en
viven
Ellos / Ellas
an
hablan
en
comen
en
viven
Vosotros
áis
habláis
éis
coméis
ís
vivís

*Note that vosotros and ustedes in Spanish refers to "you all", therefore, you use it when you are talking to a group directly. Vosotros is used mainly in Spain while ustedes is used mainly in Latin America. Depending on your accent and needs you can decide which one to use, even though it does not matter when you are speaking as every Spanish speaker should be able to understand you no matter which one you use (just stick to the type of Spanish you prefer for pronunciation)

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Saludos,
Fernanda

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