How to Learn Basic Spanish Verbs - Part 2Posted by Nick Niesen on October 27th, 2010 There are three basic groups of Spanish verbs, in these articles we will look at the regular AR, ER and IR verbs.. In this part we will concentrate on regular ER and IR verbs in the present tense. In Part 1,we learned that a verb is a ?doing? word that covers everything from an action to an opinion, so sing, drink, eat,, like, dislike, love, kick, fall, smile, hear, write turn, are all examples of verbs. In the English language the verb is not changed by who is doing the action. An example would be; In the first part we concentrated on regular verbs ending in the letters a and r. The other two groups of regular verbs are the verbs that end in er and ir.
One of the words meaning to repair in Spanish is rehacer, if we want to say ? I repair cars? in Spanish, we drop the e and r from the end of rehacer and add an o, to give ?rehaco los coches?(los coches, is literally the cars). There is no need for the Spanish word for I (Yo) at the beginning of the sentence because by adding the er, we have changed the verb to referrer it to me.
Regular verbs ending in ir behave in the same way as regular er verbs in every case apart from one which we will get to, but let us look at the similarities first. The similarities are; for I (yo) drop the ir and add e, for you (tú) drop ir and add es, for he/she/formal version of you (él, ella, usted) drop the ir and add e, and you when addressing more than person drop the ir for en. So thats how we learn basic Spanish verbs, I hope its been helpful, and also hope that this will be the start of of a larger appreciation of the Spanish language. Like it? Share it!More by this author |