The Spanish language uses verbs too!

• In Spanish, there are THREE families of verbs!

• Verbs are categorized by their ENDING.

• The three families of verbs are...

• -AR

• -ER

• -IR

There are two parts of a verb

• The first part is the STEM. This is what comes before the ending.

• The last part is the ENDING. This is either your -AR, -ER, or -IR ending.

  • Practicar (to practice)

  • Descansar (to rest)

  • Dibujar (to draw)

  • Trabajar (to work)

How and why do we conjugate?

• Conjugating is the act of simply saying WHO is doing a specific verb.

• In English, we don't do a whole lot of conjugating. For example:

• I run, you run, we run

• In Spanish, we are more clear about who is doing the verb. To determine who is doing a specific verb, the verb must CHANGE or be CONJUGATED.

Remember our subject pronouns...

These are the WHO

Conjugating verbs that end in -AR

To conjugate an AR verb, you simply drop the AR ending and add these endings depending on who is doing the action.

Let's practice conjugating HABLAR (to talk) for instance...