![]() (trabajar)ĥ) La chica va al gimnasio y hace ejercicio.If you have chosen Spanish to be your second language, you probably wonder if there is any way to make the whole process faster and easier, especially when it comes to learning verbs. The young man plays tennis with a friend.Ĥ) La mujer trabaja en una oficina. ![]() (estudiar)ģ) El joven juega al tenis con un amigo. The following sentences express habitual actions and events.ġ) ¿Qué hacen estas personas los viernes? (hacer)Ģ) El niño estudia para los exámenes de la escuela. The speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second.ĥ) España tiene 45 millones de habitantes. (hacer)Ĥ) La velocidad de la luz es de 300 000 kilómetros por segundo. Now let’s conjugate some irregular verbs:įill the gaps conjugating the verbs in brackets in Present Tense:ģ) Las plantas hacen la fotosíntesis. Click on the gray spaces to see the solutions:Ħ) ellos comprenden (comprender) Exercise 2 We will begin our practice with some regular verbs.Ĭonjugate the following verbs in Present Tense. I always go to the museum if I have time. We can express a condition in Present Tense, introduced by si (if). Nosotros empezamos un curso de español el mes que viene. Tomorrow I eat at my grandmother’s house. There are other tenses for this, such as the Future Tense.īut sometimes we use the Present, specially if the action takes place in the near future: Things that will happen in the near future There is another tense called Present Progressive that is generally better for this. Nosotros viajamos a México todos los veranos. We use the Present Tense to talk about things that happen usually, habitually…: We use the Present Tense to state all kinds of facts: facts of life, nature, people, culture…: Huelo, hueles, huele, olemos, oléis, huelen serĮstoy, estás, está, estamos, estáis, están It follows the «o → ue» pattern, but also a letter «h» appears for most persons. Here we include «ser» and «ir», which don’t belong to any of the previous types.Īlso «estar», a peculiar verb because it has many accent marks in present tense.įinally, «oler». Vengo, v ienes, v iene, venimos, venís, v ienen Tengo, t ienes, t iene, tenemos, tenéis, t ienen This third type is a like a mix of the previous types.ĭigo, d ices, d ice, decimos, decís, d icen Verbs with a special «yo» form AND a stem change for the other persons (except «nosotros» and vosotros») Inclu yo, inclu yes, inclu ye, incluimos, incluís, inclu yen the letter y appears (for all verbs ending in -uir):Ĭonstru yo, constru yes, constru ye, construimos, construís, constru yen.S irvo, s irves, s irve, servimos, servís, s irven Rep ito, rep ites, rep ite, repetimos, repetís, rep iten P ido, p ides, p ide, pedimos, pedís, p iden ![]() J uego, j uegas, j uega, jugamos, jugáis, j uegan S ueño, s ueñas, s ueña, soñamos, soñáis, s ueñan P uedo, p uedes, p uede, podemos, podéis, p ueden Qu iero, qu ieres, qu iere, queremos, queréis, qu ierenĪdqu iero, adqu ieres, adqu iere, adquirimos, adquirís, adqu ierenĬ uento, c uentas, c uenta, contamos, contáis, c uentan P ienso, p iensas, p iensa, pensamos, pensáis, p iensan Verbs with a stem change for all persons (except «nosotros» and «vosotros»)Ĭ ierro, c ierras, c ierra, cerramos, cerráis, c ierran Veo, ves, ve, vemos, veis, ven (no accent mark on "veis") Traigo, traes, trae, traemos, traéis, traen Salgo, sales, sale, salimos, salís, salen Hago, haces, hace, hacemos, hacéis, hacen The «yo» form is irregular, but the other persons are completely regular.Ĭonduzco, conduces, conduce, conducimos, conducís, conducenĬonozco, conoces, conoce, conocemos, conocéis, conocenĭoy, das, da, damos, dais, dan (no accent mark on "dais") With that in mind, we divide irregular verbs into 4 types: The endings in the table above still apply for most irregular verbs. Notice that… the endings for verbs in «-er» and «-ir» are different only for «nosotros» and «vosotros». They are highlighted in green in the following table: The endings are different for verbs in «-ar», «-er» and «-ir». Remove the «-ar / -er / -ir», leaving only the stem.Every time we learn a new verb, we also need to learn if that specific verb is regular or irregular. Unfortunately, the ending doesn’t say anything about a verb being regular or irregular. There are 3 types of verbs in Spanish, looking at their ending: Regular and irregular verbs in Present Tense Regular and irregular verbs in Present Tense.
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