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Conjugating Verbs
In English, we can often use a verb without making any changes to it. The verb "walk" is used in the
same form in all of these sentences.
I walk.
You walk.
They walk.
My neighbors walk.
Their dogs walk.
But sometimes we have to add -s or -es to the end of a verb. We do that when the subject is he, she,
it or a singular noun:
She walks.
He walks.
It walks.
My neighbor walks.
Her dog walks.
You can see that there are only two forms of the verb: "walk" and "walks." And those are the only two
ways we change a normal English verb to make it fit different people or subjects. Spanish verbs, on
the other hand, do a lot of changing to fit different subjects. This changing of the verb is called
conjugating.
All verbs have a basic or unconjugated form. This is called an infinitive. In English, infinitives start
with the word "to." "To walk" is the infinitive form of "walk" and "walks." "To be" is the infinitive form of
"is," "are," and "am." Spanish infinitives are always just one word, and they always end in R. In fact, in
Spanish all infinitives end in “ar,” “er,” or “ir.” When you take a Spanish infinitive and change it to fit
the subject of a sentence, that's called conjugating the verb. Some examples of infinitives in Spanish
are estudiar, aprender and escribir.