is there an easy way to learn present tense ar verbs??

Question

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Answer 1

No.

I agree :) - ian-hill, Oct 5, 2014

Haha, wow .. I partly agree :) - Joydeep_Singh, Oct 5, 2014

Lol - rac1, Oct 6, 2014

Answer 2

The present tense AR are where most people start when learning verbs. When you start learning other verbs and tenses you will see patterns but I cannot think of anything specific.

Obviously yo = I, though subject pronouns aren't used much and the present tense for I ends in O. As you have seen with ar verbs apart from I/yo the endings all have an 'a'

Just learn them - I don't know what works for you although people all use computors I sometimes think the actual writing something down rather than typing helps you remember. You definitely need to keep repeating it.Pick a couple of AR verbs then make upsome short sentences - involve friends who are learning -

Try listening to this song and you will soon know the endings for tu and 3rd person. Ignore the French bits.

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I also think writing thins by hand helps. The brain loses everything, but mystriously, the hand often knows what it is doing - annierats, Oct 5, 2014

Answer 3

When I started learning, I literally recited 'the endings' parrot fashion - a, as, a, amos, ais, an and applied these to the stem of all regular ar verbs.

Then the same for er, ir. And then again for all the tenses.

Good luck - take it all in bite sized pieces and you'll get there!

Answer 4

Yes Bubble Queen (reina de burbujas en español, hehe) ,

Welcome to the forum

First of all you need to understand that there are different types of verbs,,, there are regular verbs and then thee are irregular verbs ,,, the irregular verbs are also of different types .. for example the stem changing verbs, spelling changing verbs and highly irregular verbs.

Now the good news for you is that in the AR category there are relatively fewer irregular verbs ... So just follow the following steps and you will be good to go :

Step 1: Memorize the the conjugation pattern of reglar AR verb, for effectively doing this you can take any simple AR verb like Hablar for example and learn it's conjugation pattern in presente de indicativo (Present Indicative) ,, then whenever you need to conjugate any other regular AR verb you can just keep that "Hablar model" in you mind and apply the same pattern to other regular AR verbs.

Step 2: Sequester the irregular AR verbs on a piece of paper and put them aside for a while and memorize the remainder important AR verbs that fall in the bracket of the Regular verbs and after practicing with them for a while once you are confident with the regular verbs you may proceed to the next step :

Step 2: Now take out that piece of paper from your drawer which you had set aside while practicing the regular ones ... at this point you won't need to further bifurcate them until you progress to the conjugation in other tenses because most of the spelling changing verbs would only change the spellings in the preterito and subjuntivo ..for example Alcanzar, Alzar etc. these verbs will only show their irregularity (speeling changes) in the past(preterito) tense and presente de subjuntivo (Present subjunctive) and they will behave like a good boy in all the other tenses so while learning the present indicative tense you need to bother about these verbs and just learn them as regular verbs applying the usual conjugation format .. The ones you need to worry about though are the verbs with Stem changes like Acordar (where o becomes "ue" when conjugated) as these do exhibit their irregularity in the present indicative thense (and also the present subjunctive) .. and then you also need to list down the highly irregular ones .. Like estar .. which for example will be conjugated as "estoy" in the present indicative first person singular (which doesn't follow the pattern of any other type of irregular verbs like stem changing or spelling changing verbs) .. so such verbs have to be learnt individually.

Stemp 3.. One you have marked the stem changing verbs and the irregular verbs like estar (excluding the spelling changing verbs for the time being) now you need to keep in mind that these stem changing verbs fall in two categories .. the first one being where the stem vowen "o" becomes "ue" like Acordar (Yo Acuerdo, Tu acuerdas, El acuerda etc.) and second where the stem vowel "e" changes to "ie" ,, like Cerrar (cierro, cierras, cierra etc.) and the second good news for you is that all the verbs falling under these two categories follow their respective patterns so you won't have to learn each of these stem changing verbs individually, just remember the verbs first and then remember the two stem changing patters (the way you used hablar to learn the regular pattern, you can likewise chose two verbs for O to ue and e to ie patterns and then apply those patterns on any stem changing verb you come across.)

You can also read this article on stem changing verbs .. hope it helps : http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/stemie.htm