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Introducción / Introduction

Buenos días. Me llamo iNob, pero me pueden llamar Profe o señor Rickey, Nobby o iNob. Tengo 17 años y vivo en Oregón. El año pasado viví en Chile pero ya estoy en los ee.uu de nuevo. Y no tengo mucho que decir. :/

Good day. My name is iNob, but you can call me Professor or Mr. Rickey, Nobby, or iNob. I'm 17 and live in Oregon. Last year I lived in Chile, but now I'm in the USA again. And I don't have a lot to say. :/

Spanish has 3 infinitive verb endings: -ar, -er and -ir. THESER ARE THE ONLY THREE infinitive ENDINGS A VERB WILL EVER HAVE. PERIOD. END OF STORY. THANK YOU. Remeber this: just because a word has one of these three endings DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS A VERB. For example, azúcar means sugar and is a noun ending in -ar, but not a verb. 90% of the time though, the word will be a verb.

Let's start off by the different types of people:

I = yo
You (informal) = Tú*
He = Él
She = Ella
You (formal) = Usted
They (masculine**) = Ellos
They (feminine) = Ellas
You (formal [SPAIN ONLY] and plural) = Ustedes
You (plural, informal and masculine**) = Vosotros***
You (plural, informal and feminine) = Vosotras***
We (masculine**) = Nosotros
We (feminine) = Nosotras

The Spanish language has 2 ways of addressing a person (or in Spain, various persons -- explained in depth further below). There is the formal and informal you. The formal you is USTED and the informal is TÚ. The formal you is used when a person is addressing any person not considered a peer. There ARE exceptions. If a person is in a higher job position than the speaker (job or title wise -- like president, king, etcetera) and if the speaker is addressing a customer (waiter/waitress or shop keeper to customer). In some families it is even customary to use usted with parents or relatives. As you can imagine, tú is used in all other circumstances -- namely being with peers, friends, relatives and anyone beneath the speaker (waiter, waitress, shop keeper or employee). Sometimes it is customary for both customer and service provider to speak with one another in usted. You can never get in trouble for showing respect . . . so if you are unsure, use usted (and the person will tell you if he of she wishes to be addressed with tú).

Notes

*In Argentina, they use vos instead of tú. This is a regional difference which is only seen in Argentina (and perhaps some areas of Spain, but I'm not positive).
**The masculine form of they and we will be used whenever there is a group of people with one man or more present. Women are SPECIAL and so they have their own secret nosotras and vosotras. If there is a group of a billion girls and one boy, the masculine form IS USED.
***In Spain, vosotros and vosotras is used when addressing a group of peers or friends while ustedes is used when addressing a group of people that demand respect in the form of age, position or title. Ustedes is only formal in Spain.

Present conjugation

-AR

Yo -o
Tú -as
Él/ella/usted -a
ellos/ellas/ustedes -an
Nosotros/nosotras -amos
Vosotros/vosotras -áis

Example with the verb HABLAR (to talk)

Yo hablo
Tú hablas
Él/ella/usted habla
Ellos/ellas/ustedes hablan
Nosotros/nosotras hablamos
Vosotros/vosotras habláis

-ER/IR

Yo -o
Tú -es
Él/ella/usted -e
Ellos/ellas/ustedes -en
Nostros/nosotras (FOR -ER ENDING ONLY) -emos
Vosotros/vosotras (FOR -ER ENDING ONLY) -éis
Nostros/nosotras (FOR -IR ENDING ONLY) -imos
Vostros/vosotras (FOR -IR ENDING ONLY) -ís

Example with COMER (to eat)

Yo como
Tú comes
Él/ella/usted come
Ellos/ellas/ustedes comen
Nosotros/nosotras comemos
Vosotros/vosotras coméis

Example with ESCRIBIR (to write)

Yo escribo
Tú escribes
Él/ella/usted escribe
Ellos/ellas/ustedes escriben
Nosotros/nosotras escribimos
Vosotros/vosotras escribís

Normally, due to all of the conjugations, it is NOT necessary to use the "person" with the verb. As soon as you get used to simply saying, "Cada semana hablo con mi mamá" instead of "Cada semana yo hablo con mi mamá" (the yo can be omitted), you'll be speaking more like a native. (The sentences above are both grammatically correct and both read, when translated, "Each week I speak with my mom.")

1 uno
2 dos
3 tres
4 cuatro
5 cinco
6 seis
7 siete
8 ocho
9 nueve
10 diez
11 once
12 doce
13 trece
14 catorce
15 quince
16 dieciseis*
17 diecisiete
18 dieciocho
19 diecinueve
20 veinte
21 veintiuno
~
30 trenta
31 trenta y uno**
~
40 cuarenta
50 cincuenta
60 sesenta
70 setenta
80 ochenta
90 noventa
100 cien
101 ciento y uno
202 dos cientos y dos
~
449 cuatro cientos cuarenta y nueve
~
1.000 mil
1.001 mil y uno
1.793 mil setecientos noventa y tres
500.000 quinientos mil
1.000.000 millón
1.000.000.000 mil millón
1.000.000.000.000 billón



500 quinientos
700 setecientos
900 novecientos

Información adicional / Additional Information

*Literally it is like saying ten and six -- this patern continues from here on spelling wise for the end section.
**From here on, the form will be like this.

m o r i k k o
Jrik

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All verbs in the infinitive form end is -ar, -ir or -er. I probably should point that out. I mean, the verb is hablar, its conjugations are hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos, haban, habláis, etcetera. So, no. All infinitive verbs end in -ar, -ir or -er. PERIOD.

xD I'll accent the o now. I was doing all this very late at night. Typo.

And mi edad es . . . was my assumption for the response of ¿cuál es tu/su edad? (which is not heard that often either) I'll admit that I wasn't completely sure on the accuracy (because many times there are accurate sentences which simply aren't used). I shall change that. Thank you.

In regards to -ar, -er or -ir, el verbo no es sus conjugaciones sino su forma infinitiva. Hablar es el verbo y (yo) hablo sería una conjugación. El verbo en esta forma infinitiva se puede usar como un sustantivo así que un verbo siempre termina en -ar, -er o -ir. Por ejemplo, si uno quiere buscar el verbo saber en el dicionario, no se busca su conjugación (sé, sepa, sabría, sabía, sabrá, etcétera) sino su forma infinitiva.