Present Tense of -ar Verbs

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VERBS

What is a verb called in What is a verb called in its natural form before itits natural form before it´s conjugated?´s conjugated?

the INFINITIVEthe INFINITIVE

VERBS

The INFINITIVE is the The INFINITIVE is the form you would find in a form you would find in a Spanish dictionary.Spanish dictionary.

In English it means In English it means ““to + to + (verb)(verb)””

IN SPANISH:

The last letter or letters The last letter or letters of the verb tell you who of the verb tell you who does the action.does the action.

IN SPANISH:

To change an INFINITIVE To change an INFINITIVE to a form that tells who to a form that tells who is doing the action, is doing the action, remove the -ar and add remove the -ar and add the appropriate ending.the appropriate ending.

STEM / ENDING

For every INFINITIVE in For every INFINITIVE in Spanish there is a STEM Spanish there is a STEM and an ENDING.and an ENDING.

STEM / ENDING

For example, for For example, for “estudiar,”…”estudi” is “estudiar,”…”estudi” is the stem.the stem.

““ar” is the ending.ar” is the ending.

TO STUDY (English)

II studystudy

YouYou studystudy

HeHe

SheShe studiesstudies

itit

WeWe studystudy

TheyThey studystudy

ESTUDIAR (Spanish)

YoYo estudiestudioo

TúTú estudiestudiasas

Ud.Ud.

ÉlÉl estudiestudiaa

EllaElla

Nosotros estudiNosotros estudiamosamos

NosotrasNosotras

VosotrosVosotros estud estudáisáis

VosotrasVosotras

Uds.Uds.

EllosEllos estudi estudianan

EllasEllas

TOCAR

YoYo toctocoo

TúTú toctocasas

Ud.Ud.

ÉlÉl toctocaa

EllaElla

NosotrosNosotros toctocamosamos

nosotrasnosotras

Vosotros tocVosotros tocáisáis

vosotrasvosotras

Uds.Uds.

EllosEllos toc tocanan

EllasEllas

NEGATING A SENTENCE

When you want to say When you want to say that you dothat you do not not do do something, use something, use nono before the verb formbefore the verb form

NEGATING A SENTENCE

Yo Yo no cocinono cocino en la clase en la clase de educación física.de educación física.

ASKING A QUESTION

When we ask a question When we ask a question in Spanish, we usually put in Spanish, we usually put the the subjectsubject afterafter the verbthe verb or sometimes or sometimes at the end at the end of the sentence.of the sentence.

ASKING A QUESTION

¿Cocina ¿Cocina JuanJuan en la clase de en la clase de ciencias?ciencias?

¿ Estudia mucho ¿ Estudia mucho PaulinaPaulina??Verb SubjectVerb Subject

On the blank side of the green card:

-ar regular verbs-ar regular verbs

nombre

On the lined side of the green card:

to …to …

present present

-o -amos-o -amos

-as --as -áisáis

-a -an-a -an