How Do You Conjugate Present Tense Spanish Verbs?
Do you need help understanding verbs in your Spanish class? Do you just want to gain a better understanding of how the Spanish language works? Read on, and I will show you how to talk about things that are happening right now in Spanish. Start with the infinative form of the verb. The infinative is the form of the verb that ends in either -ar, -er, or -ir. For examples, we will be conjugating hablar (to speak), comer (to eat), and vivir (to live). Take the last two letters off the verb. Our examples look like this: Habl (from hablar) Com (from comer) Viv (from vivir) Your Spanish teacher is going to call the part that is left over the stem. Decide what the SUBJECT of the verb is. Let’s put our examples in context to pick out the subject. I speak. – In this sentence, “I” is the subject. You eat. – In this sentence, “you” is the subject. Juan lives in Florida. – In this sentence, “Juan” is the subject. In this step, you are going to add a new ending to the stem of the verb that we made i
