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Conjugation of Venir.

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When I am conjugating the verb Venir and I am using it in a sentence that has Nosotras which shows a femanine "as" do I change venir to venimas or venimos?

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updated Sep 25, 2011
posted by lynndiz

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venimas or venimos?

Remember that the verb itself doesn't change to match the subject's gender.

Venir - venimos (of course, this is in the present tense, indicative mood, nosotros/as conjugation)

The nosotros ending is always "imos" for infinitives ending in "ir", never "imas". If you want to show that the "we" is entirely female, you would use the subject pronoun nosotras.

updated Sep 24, 2011
edited by SonrisaDelSol
posted by SonrisaDelSol
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Basically, reinforcing what Sonrisa already said, verbs in Spanish (and all the other Romance languages) are inflected to show person and number but not gender. Some other languages also make such distinctions (for example, Arabic has distinct forms for the second person to distinguish male/female).

For what it's worth, this is also the case in English. However, we've gotten rid of most of the inflected endings (retaining only the 's' to signal the 3rd person singular, present, indicative).

updated Sep 25, 2011
posted by samdie