#Ar endings how to#

The 'you plural' form can be used in both formal and informal situations so while I put 'Are you guys going?' as a way to remember you can also use the 'you plural' form in formal situations where you are talking to more than one person and it won't be taken as 'you guys'! Hablar - to speak You formal/informal plural - 'Are you guys going?'.

You informal singular - 'Are you going?'.Yes, OK, 'you plural' is something that doesn't exist in English but if you are talking to more than one person in Spanish the verb ending changes. Eh? In a minute! Lets just work through an example Spanish

So we add an 'n' to get the 'they' form and also 'you plural'. This 'a' sound at the end of the he/she/it/you (formal) version will provide us with the springboard to get the other forms of the verb. Now have a look at how many Dental Practices use 'Modent' in their name. This type of mental exercise not only helps you discover more English but it will also help the Spanish verb sink into your memory better, especially if you are surprised at what you find because surprise is something we remember more clearly. Now the point is here that a useful exercise when you come across a new verb in Spanish is to see if you can track it back to an English version. it means 'to chew'.Īs this as a 'tion' version we can work out that the Spanish verb is probably ' masticar'. which if like me you knew you'd hear it but you don't know why. One of the things learning Spanish will do is teach you some English words you might never have known or you might have reocgnized but never truly understood.

We take off the 'tion' and add 'r' and get ' exagerar' (to exagerate).

We look for the English version ending 'tion' - exageration.

OK, another quick practice to find the Spanish verb ' to exagerate. You could use this to refer to anything from a bar of soap to a movie. Literally then ' Dura mucho' means 'It lasts a lot' but it really means 'It lasts a long time'. SpanishĪnd here we see ' mucho' which most English speakers recognize for its meaning 'a lot'. To lastĪ period of time is a duration so. Illiminate (because we can figure it out by following the 'tion' form to get the Spanish verb) is a useful way of saying 'I delete' or 'he deletes'. taking off the 'ar' and adding an 'a' gives us the form for he/she/it/you (informal). So if taking off the 'ar' and replacing it with an 'o' gets US the 'I' form. In fact any new verbs which come into the language are always 'ar' verbs. Verbs ending 'ar' are the biggest group by far. The rules mean we talk about verbs ending in 'ar' and the other two ('er' and 'ir') are handled differently but the same as each other.

Verbs ending ar - tolerar (to tolerate).

So yes you have to be careful but hey, you are already learning a bit of the past tense so that's actually quite useful already! Verb endings for he/she/it/you (formal)Īlthough there are three groups of Spanish verbs: If you leave the accent on the last syllable (as you pronounce it in the 'to' form) you change the meaning.Īs you can see in the past tense (he tolerated) there is an accent on the 'o' to point out that is where the accent of the word should be. Remember the accent is going on the penultimate syllable.

We take off the 'tion' and add 'r' and get ' tolerar' (to tolerate).Īll Spanish verbs end one of the following awaysįor all three of these groups, unless it is an irregular one, we take off the 'ar', 'er' or 'ir' - add an 'o' - and we have the 'I' version.

We look for the English version ending 'tion' - toleration.

So let's start with a quick recap on thinking out a verb we don't know in Spanish - to tolerate 'to have', 'to show', 'to eat') is the key to learning Spanish fast because for the most part verbs follow set rules. Remembering the 'to' form of a verb (e.g.

Where the word 'it' belongs in a sentence.

#Ar endings how to#

How to change verbs ending 'ar' when you want to say he/she/it/you/they.In this lesson we'll see the three main verb groups, how to conjugate verbs ending ar and where to put it in a sentence Lesson Eleven: Verb groups, ar endings and it