el pretérito explicando lo que pasó. the endings for regular verbs -ar verb endings -é -amos...
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El Pretérito
Explicando lo que pasó
The Endings For Regular Verbs
-AR verb endings
-é -amos-aste
-ó -aron
-ER/-IR verb endings
-í -imos-iste-ió -ieron
The Infinitive
• When you learn a verb, you typically learn its infinitive form. For example: HABLAR, COMER, or ESCRIBIR
• Remember that all verbs are made of up two parts: the stem and the ending.
Hablar
Conjugating the verb HABLAR
amosaste
ó aron
• Step 1– Remove the ending
–Hablar• Step 2– Add the ending that
matches the doer of the action.
é
Process Summary
• Select the verb that means what you want to communicate.
• Remove the –ar, -er, or –ir.
• Add the ending that matches who it was that did the action.
You can do this
• Remember that all things are difficult before they become easy.
• If you continually work at conjugating the verbs, one night you will go to sleep and when you wake up you will conjugate without having to think.
You really can do it
• Give your brain time to make sense of it all.
• In the meantime, keep conjugating.