When to use the verbs conjugations (ar/ er/ ir)?
When to use the verbs conjugations (ar/ er/ ir)? Not with the subjective. I mean when to choose er to conjugate and when to choose ar or ir? I know that with ex. (Querer) with -ar --> using ( Yo ) . It'll be Yo quiero . But I meant why would use ar instead of er/ ir? I'm really confused????????????????
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Learning about verbs is part of learning Spanish. The Spanish verb system is very complicated and can not be explained in just a few sentences.
You have to start from the beginning and learn just a little bit at a time. I recommend that you have a look at the free Spanish program taught by SD's own Paralee Whitmire.
Here's a link to the course.
Link to free spanish course
Welcome to the forum. Given your question I have assumed you understand English and are just starting to learn Spanish.
Here are a group of lessons about verbs
Verbs are generally regular and the infinitive - to speak/live etc ends in ar/ir/er. You remove the last two letters and add the correct endings.
A few verbs are very irregular and you have to learn them. They include the 2 verbs to be [estar/ser] and to go [ir] Many are stem changing which mean the spelling alters for some endings.
Querer is an er verb. It is however, stem changing. On the front page of the SD site if you scroll down on the left and click conjugations it will conjugate any verb you need and where the verb is irregular it will show the irregular part in red.
Here is the link for querer.
As ray says try some lessons. If you do not have a teacher, you need a structure when you start.
There are three types of verbs: -ar, -er, and -ir. Most verbs are conjugated according to their infinitive's ending: ar, er, or ir. Depending on the ending, the end of the verb is replaced with the respective subject-tense ending. Other than irregular verbs, this holds true, even with stem-changing verbs like "querer". The confusing part is that many endings overlap, like with -o being the only yo-present ending. If you type in a verb into here, SpansihDict will conjugate it for you in all forms of the verb.
