# 03. Conjugating Verbs (Present)

- **Time range:** 00:10:32 – 00:16:23  (duration 00:05:51)
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**[00:10:32]** Spanish has a lot of verbs and a lot of

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> Spanish Verbs And Conjugations

**[00:10:34]** conjugation for those verbs and in this video I'll go in depth and explain how this fundamental actually works I like to call this the primary fundamental of Spanish because it's the first system of the language where you'll need to think in terms of translation unlike memorization from the previous video

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> Verb Conjugation Changing the form of a verb so that it fits its corresponding pronouns

**[00:10:47]** conjugation basically means that you're modifying a verb so that it fits the pronoun that you're writing the verb into and speaking of pronouns here's

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> Spanish Pronouns: Yo Nosotros/as To Vosotros/as El Ellos/as

**[00:10:53]** their syntax in case you forgot from the previous video I'd also like to focus not just on important verbs that you have to know and how to conjugate but also on which pronouns to concentrate on the most because some pronouns are used way more often than others like yo to

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> Spanish Pronouns: Yo Nosotros wi Tu otros/as A El Ellos/a

**[00:11:05]** and L are used way more often than noos Vos and AOS I'd first like to present what the idea of verb conjugation looks like in English to give you a base that you can relate to the reason why English

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> to eat (present) leat | We eat You eat | Y'all eat Heeats | They eat

**[00:11:15]** is a very easy language is because it has a very minimal syntax and it doesn't really have a lot of variety in terms of conjugation if I want to use the verb to eat it will look like this in English and keep in mind that this is just a present form and also that the way you

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> Determining Verbs Determining Verbs In English: In Spanish: Starts with the preposition "to" Has to end with -ar -er or -ir e toeat e hablar ¢ to walk ¢ comer ¢ to tell e vivir

**[00:11:26]** figure out verbs in English is by the preposition to to eat to walk to tell to do whatever but in Spanish in order to determine if a word is a verb it has to end in a r e r or I but let's focus on English for a second in English you say

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> to eat (present) leat | We eat You eat | Y'all eat Heeats | They eat

**[00:11:40]** I eat you eat he eats you can also say she or it eats but we're focusing on pronouns that you would use realistically we eat you all eat there reason no you all in English but I will still include it because Spanish has it and then they eat looking at the syntax there's really n much in terms of conjugation because eat stays eat for 80% of the pronouns and you only add an s in the he pronoun because that's the syntax of the language in Spanish there

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> Verbs In Spanish: e ar ending ° er ending e ir ending

**[00:12:03]** are verbs ending in a r e r and I like abl and V here are the meanings and

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> Verbs In Spanish: e hablar - to speak ¢ comer - to eat e vivir - to live

**[00:12:09]** let's start with verbs ending in a r the

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> -ar ending verbs: Oo amos as ais a an

**[00:12:11]** way that conjugation Works in Spanish is by dropping off the ending of the verb like abl and then you add the corresponding conjugation that fits the pronoun unlike the two conjugations that you have in English Spanish has six of them to conjugate simple verbs ending in a r you first drop the ending of the verb and then apply the ending that corresponds with the pronoun for y you put o for to you put as for l or aad you put a for noos or noas but again we're focusing on the pronouns you'll use the most when speaking so for noos you put Amos for Vos you put ice with an emphasis on the a ice and for AOS you put an let's use the verb abl which is a

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> hablar - to speak: hablo | hablamos hablas hablais habla hablan

**[00:12:50]** verb you use a lot when you speak how would you conjugate the verb abl in the yo form you take a drop the ending and you add o so you get ablo the the more you try this concept the faster you'll get it for two you get AAS for l or a you get abla for noos you get aamos for votos you get abl and for AOS you get ablan try not concentrating on these

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> hablar - to speak: hablo hablamos 4 hablas hab ais A habla ablan

**[00:13:14]** pronouns because the sentences that you can make with them are very minimal all we have to know for now is how to conjugate verbs ending in a r using every pronoun but you don't necessarily need to make a thousand sentences with them if you were to make phrases as examples try focusing more on these

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> hablar - to speak: hablo y| hablamos V, me [me 7\ abla | -hablan

**[00:13:27]** pronouns one important thing to note is that the same system for conjugation

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> The Same System Works For ALMOST Every -ar Verb

**[00:13:30]** works for almost every AR verb out there but I will not focus on all of them because there is no point plus there are verbs like gustar and pensar that are

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> The Same System Works For ALMOST Every -ar Verb e Pensar e Gustar

**[00:13:38]** topics for future videos and also I don't like giving examples whenever I show the First Fundamental of Spanish because I believe that when you're learning the beginning you can generate examples on your own by simply translating new vocabulary that you encounter in your personal life plus as I said as long as you know how to conjugate verbs you're good to go because by learning how to say yo ablo

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> Yo hablo: ¢ Yo hablo espanol e Yo hablo ruso e Yo hablo contigo

**[00:13:55]** you can already say many sentences like yo ablo Espanol y or you already said a few sentences with the words yo and you can probably say more based on whatever you want to say next up there are verbs ending in

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> -er ending verbs \e] emos es éis e en

**[00:14:08]** eer and these verbs follow a similar syntax as verbs ending with a r for y you drop the ending of the verb and you put o for to you put s for l or a you put e for noos you put Emos foros you put Ace with an emphasis on the E Ace and for AOS you put n using the verb K

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> comer - to eat: como comemos comes coméis come comen

**[00:14:29]** as an example how would you conjugate the verb K in the Y form you take K drop the ending and add o so you get KO this

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> como — like "like | told him yesterday"

**[00:14:37]** word can also mean like as in the sentence like I told him yesterday but the meaning changes in context for two

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> comer - to eat: como comemos comes coméis come comen

**[00:14:43]** you get k for L you get k for noos Kos foros and AOS com as I said again try not concentrating on these pronouns

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> comer - to eat: como comemos [come comes eis A come omen

**[00:14:56]** because the phrases that you can make with them are mainly pointless there is no point in knowing how to conjugate every single e verb because you'll never use all of them I'm just using a useful verb like in order to show you how to conjugate regular e verbs the last

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> -ir ending verbs: fo) imos es is e en

**[00:15:08]** concept is verbs ending in IR for yo you drop the ending of the verb and put o for to you put s for L you put e for noos you put imos for votos you put is with an emphasis on the E is and for AOS you put n you might also notice that the

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> -er -ir ending verbs: Oo es e en

**[00:15:27]** pronouns y to L and AOS all use the same syntax as verbs ending in e which makes the language more convenient using the

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> vivir - to live: vivo vivimos vives vivis vive viven

**[00:15:34]** verb VI as an example for the Y pronoun you take VI drop the ending and add o so you get Vivo for two you get Viv for L you get VI for noos you get Vios Vos VI AOS VI as I said again there is no point in knowing how to conjugate every single IR verb because you'll never use all of them so for now I want to say that this

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> Spanish The fundamentals of -ar -er -ir verb conjugation

**[00:15:58]** is it for this video I could have made it a longer video where I gave examples and maybe quizzed you on some of the topics that I show today but I prefer not to I choose to end the concept here because I believe that this is a sufficient amount of information that one would need to know in order to understand verbs better in this video I just explained the fundamental of a r ER R and IR verb conjugation later you can start making sentences using different verbs and expressing any thought that you have in mind in Spanish this is the main fundamental of Spanish Spanish has
