Quick Grammar Review
Present Tense Conjugations What kind of verb do you have? AR, ER, IR? What pronoun do you have? Drop ending, add new ending that matches your pronoun
AR endings Yo -O Nosotros/Nosotras -AMOS Tú -AS Él/Ella/Usted -A Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes -AN
Yo -O Nosotros/Nosotras -EMOS -IMOS Tú -ES Él/Ella/Usted -E Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes -EN
IRREGULAR VERBS: no stem change in 1st person plural! JUGAR: to play (juego) UUE QUERER: to want E IE TENER: to have EIE Irregular in first person PENSAR: to think DAR: to give IR: to go Totally irregular (voy, vas, va, vamos, van) DORMIR: to sleep OUE
SER DOCTOR Soy Somos Eres Es Son
Estar For how you feel and where you are Estoy Estamos Estás Está Están
Present Progressive English: to be + ing Spanish: estar + ando/iendo Conjugate estar for your pronoun Drop the ar/er/ir from your infinitive and add either ando (for ar verbs) or iendo (for er/ir verbs) Irregular: ir (yendo), leer (leyendo), dormir(durmiendo)
Affirmative Tú Commands Conjugate the verb in third person singular ARA ER/IRE Irregular: Ponerpon Hacerhaz
DOP’s Replace the direct object of the sentence with the DOP Must agree in gender and number and replace the DO and all adjectives with it Put IOP BEFORE conjugated verb If you have 2 verbs you can attach it to the infintive Lo/La/Los/Las (it/them)
IOP Correspond with the IO of the sentence Must agree in number IO always comes after the “A” Put IOP BEFORE conjugated verb If you have 2 verbs you can attach it to the infinitive Me/Te/Le/Nos/les (to or for: me, you, he/she/you (formal), us, them(y’all)