venir means to go so what does vengo mean?

Question

Venir means to go so what does vengo mean? My profesor wants me to also do stem changing for some words for example pensar to piensar or perdir to pieder and so on like words poder preferir and i am confused because i know what the mean but not how to use the words after they are "stem changed". Please give me a better undestanding on how to use these words and to whoever helped me for my last question with spanish conjugation thanks becuase i passed my exam, i think.

Answer 1

'vengo' is the conjucation for 1st person singular of venir

Stem changes are when you must change how a verb is spelled without the ending. The endings are -ar, -er, and -ir. The part before is the stem. Some words require the stem to change. For example;

Venir

• yo vengo
• tú vienes
• él/ella viene
• nosotros venimos
• ellos/as vienen

In the 3rd person singular and plural (él/ella, ellos/as), and 2nd person (tú), the stem is changed from ven- to vien-. You can see that in the 1st person plural (nosotros), the stem stays the same, 'ven-'

Different tenses and different verbs require different changes. For those, you should look up 'Stem Changing Verbs'. And as far as knowing which verbs change and in what tenses, you'll just have to study and memorize them. There are rules for them which you should be able to find in this forum.

And stem changing doesn't change the meaning of a word. It olny alligns it with the tense. You know that venir means 'to come'. But by changing the stems (like those above), you can use the verb to say 'you come', 'he/she comes', or 'they come'

Its similar to English. You may know the word 'to run', but you have to be able to change it to 'he runs', or she ran. The verb means the same thing, your'e only changing its spelling.

Answer 2

Also, Tristan, venir does not mean 'to go' it means 'to come'.

The difference between venir and vengo is as stated by mr-solis.

venir - to come vengo - I come

Use the dictionary on this site and look up the infinitive form (the verb that ends in ar, er, or ir) of the verb you want to conjugate. After you have hit enter, scroll down to the bottom of the page for the conjugation table. It is very useful.

Think about it in terms of the different uses of infinitives versus conjugated verbs in English.

I want to walk to school. (to walk is the infinitive) I walk to school. (Here, walk is conjugated to the pronoun I)