How do you condrigate ar verb

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Yo gusto Tu gusta El,la ? Ellis,ellas Nos Think I'm missing some too.

Condrigate isn't a real word. I think perhaps you mean "conjugate"... - lydianish1, Jan 5, 2012

Answer 1

Hello Jarid and welcome to the SpanishDict forum

I think you mean to ask: How do you conjugate (or form) a verb?

Well, that depends on the verb.

Firstly, there are regular and irregular verbs, and as the first group (regular) suggests it follows a regular or uniform pattern. This generally applies to verbs which follow the AR, ER or IR endings.

AR eg: Hablar = to speak; trabajar = to work; andar = to walk

I will illustrate using the verb hablar

(yo) hablo = I speak

(tú) hablas = you speak (sing + familiar ie used to talk to friends and family )

(él/ella/Ud) habla he/she speaks /you speak (formal)

(nosotros) hablamos = we speak

(vosotros) hablaís = You speak (plural) (This form is used exclusively in Spain)

(ellos) hablan (you speak plural /they speak)

I have highlighted the endings in bold type as they remain the same for the ar verbs

All the other regular ar verbs follow the same pattern as hablar, the regular er verbs follow the same pattern as comer = to eat; and the regular ir verbs follow the same pattern as vivir = to live.

The second type of verbs are called irregular and must be learnt individually. Some verbs are irregular in many tenses and moods others are only irregular in the present or simple past (preterite) Some are called stem changers.like jugar = to play and change the stem or the root of the verb in the present indicative (juego = I play juegas =you play etc...) The endings follow the usual pattern for AR verbs.

May I respectfully suggest that you start by learning the regular verbs; how to form and use them correctly. I also agree with Lydia who has also posted a response here that you do not start with gustar becuase it does not follow the usual form but is conjugates in a different way that can be confusing to beginners.

I have provided you with a direct link to information about verbs in the SpanishDict reference section which I hope will prove helpful/useful to you: link text

I have tried to keep my explanation as clear and simple as possible and not not confuse you with unnnecessary detail at this stage.If you require further help please do not hesistate to ask me or another member of SpanishDict for clarification of these issues.

I hope this helps

Answer 2

Here you are a very useful link to learn to conjugate verbs in Spanish :link text http://www.verbolog.com/conjuga.htm . Regards from Madrid.

Answer 3

The verb GUSTAR is not really your best option if you are learning conjugation of AR verbs because it is not conjugated to the subject but to the object.

I am not sure that this is really the best way to put that; I think there is too much potential for confusion. “Gustar” is conjugated to the subject. The reason that this is confusing to English speakers is that the verb we translate it to works differently in terms of what is treated as the subject and what as the object. So although we translate “me gusta eso” as "I like that", as that is how we express the concept as a whole in English normally, the sentence is more akin to “that pleases me”. In that English sentence, “that” is also the subject, and so we would say “they please me”, and change the conjugation to match “they”. “That” and “they” are the subjects of the verb please, even though if we were to use “like” they would be the objects: I like that, I like them.

The English word disgust works the same way (and I suspect is related to the Spanish word “disgustar”)- we say “he disgusts me”, or “they disgust me”. In those cases “he” or “they” are the subject, not “me”.

Because subject pronouns and object pronouns are not the same, I think understanding this correctly is important, so one is not tempted to say “yo gusta eso”. Instead you need to use the appropriate indirect object pronoun.

Answer 4

The verb GUSTAR is not really your best option if you are learning conjugation of AR verbs because it is not conjugated to the subject but to the object. (example: Me gusta la música = I like music. Here the verb is conjugated to the third person singular because of the object, music. There are other verbs like this such as encantar = to please, molestar = to annoy; but you will get used to them as you progress.)

Here is an example of a regular AR verb conjugation :

HABLAR = To Speak:

yo hablo

tú hablas

él/ella/usted habla

nosotros hablamos

vosotros habláis (used only in Spain)

ellos/ellas/ustedes hablan