Transcript ThePresentTenseofARVerbs

The Present Tense of
AR Verbs
Review
 We already know that the infinitive forms
of verbs always end in AR, ER, and IR
 The largest group of verbs end in AR

Hablar is one of these AR verbs
 We will want to use verbs in other ways
(not just in the infinitive)
 To do this, we drop the AR ending from
the infinitive and add a new ending
 To create the forms of most AR verbs,
we drop the AR, leaving the stem:

Hablar  Habl
 Then we add a new verb ending to the
stem.
AR VERBS
 AR verb endings
Yo
o
Tu
as
Él
a
Nosotros
amos
Ellos
an
The process of dropping the AR ending and adding
a new ending is called CONJUGATING
Example
 Let’s conjugate Hablar
Yo
hablo
Tu
hablas
El
habla
Nosotros
hablamos
Ellos
hablan
 In Spanish, the present tense form of a
verb can be translated into English in
two ways:
 Hablo español  I speak/I am speaking
Spanish
 The verb endings indicate who is doing
the action. Because of this, we can use
the verb without the subject


Hablo inglés
Hablas español
 BUT, subject pronouns are used for
clarification…

Ella habla inglés, pero él habla español