Conjugation of Infinitives into the Vosotros Forms

Question

My Spanish teacher has completely neglected teaching my class the vosotros conjugation form because "you will never need to use it". How do you conjugate infinitives for vosotros? Even though I won't use it for class, I still want to know. Present tense is enough. I have looked at the conjugate feature on this site, but it has done nothing to help me on this subject. Thanks in advance!

The conjugation function will be your friend if you understand it. For instance: comer. Under Present, it gives all 6 forms, with coméis (vosotros form) right under comemos (nosotros form). You can also get a 501 verbs book which will list all of them - katydew, Apr 13, 2012

Answer 1

You are wise in being aware of it and to know it, even if you never leave the Spanish speaking countries that do not use it. It is used in some literature also so understanding helps in your readings. In church circles it is used very often for hymns and Bible reading since most use the 1960's version of the Reina-Valera edition which uses the vosotros form all through the readings.

However, depending on where you are wanting to use your Spanish, you may never need to use it. When there is a mountain to learn with beginning Spanish, many teachers leave that out so it is easier for students to concentrate on the most needed Spanish.

If you ever plan to go to Spain, Argentina or Uruguay, you might want to work a little harder on the vosotros form.

Answer 2

Although I have very much neglected Vosotros form, too (I'm really concentrating on Mex spanish right now), I want to point out that Spain is not the only place to use Vosotros. Argentina, for example, uses it and uses it A LOT. So if you have any plans to visit that part of South America, then I definitely recommend familiarizing yourself with it. Ciao y buenas suerte!

Uruguay does too. - katydew, Apr 13, 2012

Answer 3

Hi,

I'm fairly new to this site. You might find a couple of lessons on this site helpful, please look in Learn Spanish 1, lessons 1.4 and 1.5. They deal with ALL the conjugations in the present tense for regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs, including vosotros.

I may be wrong but I don't think the Vosotros conjugation is used in Latin America, only in Spain.

To form the Vosotros, take the infinitive of the verb, for example, hablar (to speak). Chop off the -ar to form the stem = habl. Add -áis = habláis (you speak, plural). On regular verbs ending in -er you add the ending -éis and for -ir ending verbs it's -ís. Don't forget the accent!

Hope this information is helpful to you, good luck amigo / amiga!

Exactly. But remember that there are irregular verbs, like "ser", and then the regular pattern does not apply but you need to know the specific form: vosotros sóis. - yonakranz, Apr 13, 2012

Answer 4

It is pretty simple. I think the reason why is because it is only used in Spain, so it isn´t really that common.

1st conjugation: hablar- vosotros habláis 2nd conjugation: beber- vosotros bebéis 3rd conjugation: vivir- vosotros vivís

The imperative is also different: hablar=hablad beber=bebed vivir=vivid

I am pretty sure that is how it goes, although I don´t really use it too often, because I use the Latin American Spanish more.