1. Spanish Stem-Changing Verbs
e→ie
o  ue
e  I
u  ue

2. Los verbos que cambian e→ie
Querer
Pensar
Cerrar
Empezar
Entender
Preferir
Perder
Comenzar
To want
To think
To close
To begin (start)
To understand
To prefer
To loose
To start or begin

3. Los verbos que cambian e→ie
Preferir
Perder
Comenzar
Sentir
Calentar
Special Yogo & eie
Tener
venir
To prefer
To loose
To start or begin
To feel
To heat or warm up
To have
To come

4. Stem-changing verbs give their stems the boot!
How do these verbs work?
Stem-changing verbs give their stems the boot!

5. All verbs have two parts:
Querer
/ending
Stem

6. Querer (eie) o emos es eis e en quier quer
First, let’s just add all the stems.
quier
quer o
emos es
eis e en
Second, let’s add all the endings.

7. Querer (eie)
quier
quer
queréis o
emos es e en

8. Two steps for stem changing verbs:
Change the stem
Change the ending
Remember, e can change to ie only within the boot. This means the nosotros and vosotros forms never changes!
If there are two e’s in the stem, the second one always changes.

9. Cerrar- to close
cierr
cerr
cerráis o
amos as a an

10. Preferir- to prefer
prefier
prefer
preferís o
imos es e en

11. Now it is your turn to conjugate the rest of the e ie stem changing verbs
Empezar
Entender
Pensar

12. empezar- to begin (start)
Empiezo
Empezamos
Empiezas
Empezáis
Empieza
empiezan
entender- to understand
Entiendo
Entendemos
Entiendes
Entendéis
entiende
entienden

13. pensar- to think
pienso
pensamos
piensas
pensáis
piensa
piensan

14. Los verbos que cambian o→ue
almorzar
contar
dormir
encontrar
mostrar
poder + inf
recordar
volver
To have lunch
To tell or to count
To sleep
To find
To show
To be able to/ can
To remember
To return

15. Los verbos que cambian u→ue
jugar
To play

16. almorzar- to have lunch
almuerz
almorz
almorzáis o
amos as a an

17. contar- to tell or to count
cuento
contamos
cuentas
contáis
cuenta
cuentan
dormir- to sleep
duermo
dormimos
duermes
dormís
duerme
duermen