An INFINITIVE is a verb that has not

An INFINITIVE is a verb that has not been conjugated. You can tell it is an infinitive because no person, place or thing (noun) is doing the action of the verb. Examples: To run To sing To eat To dream To CONJUGATE a verb means to change a verb from its infinitive form to match the subject of the sentence. Examples: I run, you run, she runs We sing, they sing Mary eats Mary and John dream.

What You Need To Remember… When you conjugate a verb, you must match the ending of the verb to the subject. The subject can be a person (proper noun or pronoun), place, or thing. Below is a chart that shows conjugation subjects, both in English and Spanish. SINGULAR I > yo PLURAL We > nosotros You (familiar form) > tú He > él She > ella You (Polite form) > Usted (Ud) They > ellos Ellas > ellas You all (polite form) > Ustedes (Uds. )

Present Tense of “AR” Verbs All verbs, action words, in Spanish belong to a family. All “AR” verbs belong to a family called first conjugation. Verbs whose infinitive ends in –ar are called first conjugation. Here are some “-AR” verbs, first conjugation: hablar To speak/ to talk comprar To buy mirar To look at pagar To pay buscar To look for necesitar To need Notice how each of the verbs above ends in “AR”. They are all in the infinitive form.

How to conjugate “AR” Verbs

Step 1 - Identify the “AR” verb. Hablar = to speak/talk

Step 2 - Drop off the “AR” ending. Hablar Now you are left with a the stem of the verb. Habl

Step 3 - Add the endings for “AR” verbs that match the subject.

“AR” verb endings

yo form ending = -o habl + o = hablo

tú form ending = -as habl + as = hablas

él, ella, Usted forms ending = -a habl + a = habla

nosotros form ending = -amos habl + amos = hablamos

ellos, ellas, Ustedes forms ending = -an habl + an = hablan

Chart form SINGULAR PLURAL yo -o tú -as él, ella, Usted (Ud. ) -a nosotros -amos Ellos, Ellas, Ustedes (Uds. ) -an

Remember: to conjugate any verb you must match the ending of the verb to the correct person or persons doing the action, or the subject of the sentence. INFINITIVE hablar comprar mirar ENDINGS STEM hablcomprmiryo hablo compro miro -o tú hablas compras miras -as compra mira -a él, ella, Ud. habla nosotros hablamos compramos miramos ellos, hablan ellas, Uds. compran miran -amos -an