Necesito estudio o necesito estudiar?

Question

Which one is right, necesito estudio or necesito estudiar?

If two verbs are next to each other in a sentence, do you only conjugate the first one or both?

How about quiero? Is it quiero visitar or quiero visito?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It's the same as in English, you say I need to study, not I need I study.

Answer 2

Necesito estudiar because then your saying I need to study but if you say necesito estudio your saying I need I study.

Answer 3

The first verb (quiero, necesito, etc) is the verb subject to conjugation. The second (estudiar, visitar, etc) must be infinitive. The infinitive acts as a noun.

Answer 4

Necesito estudiar. Yes, if two verbs are next to each other you only conjugate the first and leave the second in the infinitive.

Answer 5

Necesito estudiar. You only conjugate the 1st verb

Answer 6

Necesito estudiar. You can't put two conjugated verbs together like that.

Thanks. So is this rule applied to all verbs? - maeumi, Dec 12, 2010

No, sometimes you need a preposition between them. - lorenzo9, Dec 13, 2010

Answer 7

You can't put two conjugated verbs together like that.

The prohibition against two conjugated verbs may be a useful way of remembering this for you but the real problem is that after verbs such as "quiero"/"necesito"/etc. you need a noun (or something that functions as a noun). In English, your only alternatives to a "real" noun are a gerund or an infinitive and in Spanish (since the gerundio is never used as a noun) is the infinitive.

Answer 8

Julian, that one little sentence of yours just made my life a whole lot easier. (the second verb functions as a noun) I knew that you only conjugated the first verb, but I thought it was perhaps because God DID have some mercy on me. But your explaination clears up the whole matter. Thanks a ton!

My pleasure - 005faa61, Dec 12, 2010