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 Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:49 pm
Hey everybody. I'm taking spanish 2 this year, which is VERY difficult for me. My spanish 1 teacher failed to teach us many of the spanish basics, which makes spanish 2 at this new school difficult. On top of that, I need two of the same foreign language classes to graduate high school, and it's my senior year. So I'm stuck in a class I don't know, and if I don't pass it, I don't graduate.
With that note, something I'm stuck on is Spanish verb forms, stem changes, and tenses. Can somebody help me??? My teacher is giving us a list of common verb words to use with a table of each form. Unfortunately, I filled it out and half of it is wrong or unreadable (from being scratched out). Basically, I don't want to just know the WORD. I want to know HOW to change the word. That way I can work with whatever is available to me.
Any help would be wonderful! Please!
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:42 pm
That really sucks neutral Be sure to post here if you need help, it would really suck if you couldn't graduate because of that...
A quick summary of Spanish 1:
yo = I
tú = you
él / ella / usted = he, she, you, respectively. They all get conjugated the same way which is why I'm grouping them together. The difference between "usted" and "tú" is that "usted" is used in formal situations.
nosotros / nosotras = we (nosotras if there are no males in the group)
ellos / ellas / ustedes = they (male), they (female), and you guys (formal), respectively.
*In addition to these conjugation groups there's another called "vosotros" which is the plural form of tú, but since it's only used in Spain and maybe a couple other countries schools usually don't teach vosotros, or at least until later on. I didn't need to know it until Spanish 3.
Now, conjugating the verb for each conjugation group. Personally, I only learned present tense in Spanish 1, and past tense at the beginning of Spanish 2. So I'll only cover present tense here since it's really easy, whereas the past tense is one of the hardest... sweatdrop
All Spanish infinitives (that's an unconjugated verb) end with either -ar, -er, or -ir. Once you drop the appropriate ending you have the verb stem, and from there you add the conjugation. Each verb type gets conjugated differently.
-ar verbs:
yo: -o
tú: -as
él: -a
nosotros: -amos
ellos: -an
Example: cantar (to sing)
yo canto
tú cantas
él canta
nosotros cantamos
ellos cantan
-er verbs:
yo: -o
tú: -es
él: -e
nosotros: -emos
ellos: -en
Example: comer (to eat)
yo como
tú comes
él come
nosotros comemos
ellos comen
-ir verbs: (fortunately they're identical to -er except for nosotros)
yo: -o
tú: -es
él: -e
nosotros: -imos
ellos: -en
Example: vivir (to live)
yo vivo
tú vives
él vive
nosotros vivimos
ellos viven
Although unfortunately, there are quite a lot of irregular verbs in Spanish. There are a few common patterns with irregular verbs that you may notice but I can't really think of them off the top of my head neutral Here are 3 irregular verbs that you absolutely must know the conjugations for:
ser (to be) :
yo soy
tú eres
él es
nosotros somos
ellos son
hacer (to do) :
yo hago
tú haces
él hace
nosotros hacemos
ellos hacen
tener (to have) :
yo tengo
tú tienes
él tiene
nosotros tenemos
ellos tienen
I hope that helps... if you need to see how specific verbs are conjugated go to http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugation . But don't rely on it or else you won't be able to conjugate for yourself.
Actually, I just found this on the same website that describes the present tense and includes common irregular conjugation patterns and exercises. Actually http://www.spanishdict.com as a whole is a great site that has all the information you could ever need to know about Spanish on it. I also like http://www.studyspanish.com/ . I used that site to relearn Spanish 2 since my teacher wasn't so great then. xd
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:32 pm
Ukryu That really sucks neutral Be sure to post here if you need help, it would really suck if you couldn't graduate because of that...
A quick summary of Spanish 1:
yo = I
tú = you
él / ella / usted = he, she, you, respectively. They all get conjugated the same way which is why I'm grouping them together. The difference between "usted" and "tú" is that "usted" is used in formal situations.
nosotros / nosotras = we (nosotras if there are no males in the group)
ellos / ellas / ustedes = they (male), they (female), and you guys (formal), respectively.
*In addition to these conjugation groups there's another called "vosotros" which is the plural form of tú, but since it's only used in Spain and maybe a couple other countries schools usually don't teach vosotros, or at least until later on. I didn't need to know it until Spanish 3.
Now, conjugating the verb for each conjugation group. Personally, I only learned present tense in Spanish 1, and past tense at the beginning of Spanish 2. So I'll only cover present tense here since it's really easy, whereas the past tense is one of the hardest... sweatdrop
All Spanish infinitives (that's an unconjugated verb) end with either -ar, -er, or -ir. Once you drop the appropriate ending you have the verb stem, and from there you add the conjugation. Each verb type gets conjugated differently.
-ar verbs:
yo: -o
tú: -as
él: -a
nosotros: -amos
ellos: -an
Example: cantar (to sing)
yo canto
tú cantas
él canta
nosotros cantamos
ellos cantan
-er verbs:
yo: -o
tú: -es
él: -e
nosotros: -emos
ellos: -en
Example: comer (to eat)
yo como
tú comes
él come
nosotros comemos
ellos comen
-ir verbs: (fortunately they're identical to -er except for nosotros)
yo: -o
tú: -es
él: -e
nosotros: -imos
ellos: -en
Example: vivir (to live)
yo vivo
tú vives
él vive
nosotros vivimos
ellos viven
Although unfortunately, there are quite a lot of irregular verbs in Spanish. There are a few common patterns with irregular verbs that you may notice but I can't really think of them off the top of my head neutral Here are 3 irregular verbs that you absolutely must know the conjugations for:
ser (to be) :
yo soy
tú eres
él es
nosotros somos
ellos son
hacer (to do) :
yo hago
tú haces
él hace
nosotros hacemos
ellos hacen
tener (to have) :
yo tengo
tú tienes
él tiene
nosotros tenemos
ellos tienen
I hope that helps... if you need to see how specific verbs are conjugated go to http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugation . But don't rely on it or else you won't be able to conjugate for yourself.
Actually, I just found this on the same website that describes the present tense and includes common irregular conjugation patterns and exercises. Actually http://www.spanishdict.com as a whole is a great site that has all the information you could ever need to know about Spanish on it. I also like http://www.studyspanish.com/ . I used that site to relearn Spanish 2 since my teacher wasn't so great then. xd Omg, thank you SO much!
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:24 pm
I concur with everything Ukryu said, but I'll add that though you don't need vosotros at the moment in class, if you're studying the best way possible (that is, practicing with Spanish speakers) it's important to know, as ustedes is rarely used. It's used more often in the classroom, but in real life, vosotros is the one used 90% of the time.
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