2. Verbos Regulares An Introduction

3. Spanish Verbs Start as Infinitives

4. A. An infinitive is a verbal idea that includes the English word “to”.

5. B. There are 3 kinds of infinitives: -ar -er -ir

6. Hablar to speak or to talk

7. Decidir to decide

8. Practicar to practice

9. Caminar To walk

10. Comer to eat

11. An infinitive must end with one of these two letters combinations. But every word that ends with –ar, -er, -ir is not an infinitive.

12. For example: The word “lugar” ends with –ar but it is a noun that means “place”.

13. C. The stem or root is what is left of the infinitive after the –ar, -er and –ir are removed.

14. What is the stem of “hablar”? habl

15. What is the stem of “vivir”? viv

16. What is the stem of “beber”? beb

17. What is the stem of “practicar”? practic

18. What is the stem of “responder”? respond

19. What is the stem of “escribir”? escrib

20. What is the stem of “estudiar”? estudi

21. What is the stem of “bailar”? bail

22. What is the stem of “terminar”? termin

23. Just a little note here that most stems cannot be pronounced.

24. The stem of a verb can help you know something about nouns. For example “comer’ is “to eat. Both “comedor” and “comida” start with the stem of “comer”, so we know they have something to do with eating. The first one is “dining room” and the second is “food”.

25. D. To conjugate an infinitive start with the stem and add the appropriate ending for the subject and tense you wish to use.

26. E. Endings are added to the stem to create subject and time of action.

27. The endings used with –ar verbs in the present tense are: “o” for I “as” for you “a” for he, she, it, you polite “amos” for we “an” for they, you plural

28. For example: To say “I talk” we must start with the infinitive “to talk” and continue from there. hablar habl hablo

29. Try it again. This time “we talk”. hablar habl hablamos

30. F. The tense is when something is happening, was happening or will happen. It is the time of action of the verb.

31. G. There are 3 things that every Spanish verb, when it is conjugated, tells us: What When Who

32. H. What about words like “do, or does” etc.? Three things to remember about them: 1. They are often implied 2. They tell the tense of the verb 3. They show the position of the verb.

33. For example: Where do you practice soccer? ¿Dónde practicas el fútbol? Where did you practice soccer? ¿Dónde practicaste el fútbol?

34. When you have a sentence where there are two verbs in a row with no obvious change of subject, the first verb is conjugated and the second remains an infinitive.

35. For example: I need to study here. Necesito estudiar aquí. Do you need to study here? ¿Necesitas estudiar aquí?

36. J. In order to make sentences negative (no, not, n’t) the word “no” placed before the verb.

37. For example: I don’t want Taco Bell. Yo no quiero Taco Bell. We don’t speak French. No hablamos el francés.

38. K. To find the correct ending, in any tense, you must know what pronoun would replace the subject noun. More often then not these subject pronouns in Spanish are omitted.

39. L. The Spanish present tense has three allowable translations. Context and intended meaning are how you determine which one to use.

40. Ramon nada en el lago. The first translation or usage is habitual. The second is in progress at the moment. The third is usually formatted into a question.

41. Be sure to remember these subject pronoun groups: Iwe you he, she, itthey, you plural These groups determine which endings you will use.

42. 2A. In Spanish the subject groups are: yonosotros tú él, ella, ustedellos,ellas, ustedes

43. 2B Verb endings are determined by number and tense not by gender.

44. Conjuguemos

45. Yo sacar saco

46. Look at letter H on worksheet: The subject is Juana y yo The pronoun that substitutes is “we” So we add the we ending to the stem of the verb bailar>bail>bailamos

47. Look at letter J on worksheet: The subject is los estudiantes The pronoun that substitutes is “they” So we add the they ending to the stem of the verb hablar>habl>hablan

48. Look at letter U on the worksheet: The subject is la escuela The pronoun that substitutes is “it” So we add the it ending to the stem of the verb llegar>lleg>llega

49. Dictionary Lesson Looking up a verb study Paco studies in school. practice I am practicing tomorrow. need We need to buy books.