Two verbs after in a row and both need to be conjucated

Question

You know I live in a house=sabes vivo en una casa or sabes vivir en una casa or saber vivir en una casa. From what I have learned if there are two verbs after eachother only one of them can be conjucated, if that is the case it will be: you know (?) lives in a house, and that is weird!

Thanks in advance :D

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Answer 1

Sabes que vivo en una casa.

The thing about 1+ verb in a row where only the first one is conjugated applies when you have no change of subject, while change of subject normally requires more than one verb to be conjugated. What you have in your example is a complex sentence with change of subject, where "You know" is the main sentence and "I live in a house" is the subordinate sentence. In English you can get away with dropping the "that" which links the two sentences but in Spanish it must be there.

Perfect answer , well done, Manity:) - FELIZ77, Apr 8, 2015

Answer 2

Welcome to the forum. Can you mark your level of English and Spanish on your profile. For example we try and encourage people to write correct English but don't want to discourage someone who is learning English. Some clever people here are learning English and Spanish.

Do you have a teacher you can ask? The rule is correct, but the Spanish write more carefully than we do. In English you are saying 'Do you know that I live ..' in Spanish there is a que so you do not have a conjugated verb followed by the infinitive.

Gracias amiga. - ian-hill, Apr 8, 2015

Answer 3

Thanks for the hyper-fast answer! (I would upvote your answer if I could)

/Prinskorv

You're welcome! :) - Manity, Apr 8, 2015