Present tense of -ar verbs - MRS. BOWERS' BLOG



Apuntes de gramática – Capítulo 2A Nombre: _______________________________

p. 84 Present tense of -ar verbs Fecha: Hoy es el ______ de _______________

Hora: ___________

You already know that the infinitive forms of Spanish verbs always end in:

-____________, -___________, or -____________.

The largest group of verbs end in -____________. Hablar is one of these -ar verbs. You will want to use verbs in ways other than in the infinitive form. To do this, you will drop the -ar ending and make changes. To create the forms of most -ar verbs, you first drop the -ar from the infinitive, leaving the stem:

Hablar ( ___________________

Then you add the verb endings to the stem:

-_____________, -________________, -_____________, -________________, -______________, -______________

Here are the forms of hablar:

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|yo habl_______ |nosotros,-as habl____________ |

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|tú habl_______ |vosotros,-as habl____________ |

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|él |ellos |

|ella habl_______ |ellas habl____________ |

|Ud. |Uds. |

In Spanish, the present tense form of a verb can be translated into English in __________ ways.

Hablo español 1. I speak Spanish

2. I am speaking Spanish

The verb endings always indicate _____________ is doing the action. In this case, they tell who is speaking. Because of this, you can often use the verb without a subject:

Hablo inglés. _________ speak English.

¿Hablas español? Do ___________ speak Spanish?

*Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él, ella, Ud., nosotros-as, vosotros-as, ellos, ellas, Uds.) are are often used for ________________________ or ________________________.

Ella habla inglés pero él habla español. = Habla inglés pero habla español.

* we are emphasizing who speaks English and * we do not know who speaks English and who speaks Spanish.

who speaks Spanish.)

Write the English subject pronoun in the space available. (This section not found in the book.)

Single person Multiple people

|Spanish subject Ending English subject |Spanish subject Ending English subject |

|pronoun pronoun |pronoun pronoun |

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|yo -o __________ |nosotros,-as -amos ________________ |

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|tú -as __________ |vosotros,-as -áis ________________ |

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|él __________ |ellos ________________ |

|ella -a __________ |ellas -an ________________ |

|Ud. __________ |Uds. ________________ |

Práctica: There are eight verbs given below. If the ending tells you that there is one person performing the action, write S (single) in the space available. If the ending tells you more than one person is doing something, write M (multiple) in the space available.

1. hablas _______ 5. trabajo _______

2. estudian _______ 6. necesitamos _______

3. practico _______ 7. cantáis _______

4. bailamos _______ 8. dibujan _______

p. 85 Gramática - ¿Qué estudian?

Look at the pictures and tell what these people are studying. Ejemplo: [pic] Tomás estudia música.

1. [pic]Laura 4. [pic] Catalina y José

__________________________________________ ______________________________________________

2. [pic] Josefina, Elena, y yo 5. [pic] Joaquín y tú

__________________________________________ ______________________________________________

3. [pic] tú 6. [pic] yo

___________________________________________ ______________________________________________

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