Do you conjugate all verbs in a sentence if you have more than one verb?
In the sentence, "Yo no necesito traer un cuaderno." Do you conjugate traer?
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No, you don't anymore than you do in English. There are times when you need to change verbs depending on what they mean, but generally only one verb is conjugated to the subject in a given clause, and clauses in Spanish are generally well demarcated.
So that sentence looks correct- the clue in English that you don't conjugate the verb is that we leave "to" in front of it. I don't need to bring a notebook. To bring is an unconjugated English verb.
In the sentence: Tengo un cuaderno que mi madre me dio. I have a notebook that my mother gave me. I conjugated dar, to madre, because it is a different clause separated by que. With a different subject.
As an aside, to my understanding, traer is probably not the correct verb for the sentence, because it is used to bring something to where the speaker is, and my assumption is that you do not need to take a notebook to a place somewhere other than where you are- so I would use llevar. We mix up bring and take in English, it is not done in Spanish- you take something there and bring something here.
My sentence would be:
No tengo que llevar un cuaderno.
