Spanish verbs (Basics III): Spanish infinitive verbs (ep. 13)

You must know that in Spanish there are, from the grammar aspect, three kind of verbs that ends in three different ways.

So, if you learn these endings right now, you will be able to conjugate cualquier (any) verb whatever tense is it.

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1. There are verbs that end in -AR (jugar-to play, cantar – to sing, hablar – to speak, andar – to walk). This is the most common conjugation in Spanish. So, the most of verbs that you find in Spanish end in -AR.
2. The second group are verbs that end in -ER (comer-to eat, leer-to read, ser– to be).
3. And finally, there is a last group of verbs that end in -IR (vivir, to live domir – to sleep or, simply -ir to go).

En resumen, three endings, three kind of Spanish infinitive verbs.

If you can recognize from now, every time that you read or listen to a verb in Spanish, which ending is it…. habrás aprendido lo necesario para empezar a conjugar verbos (You will have learnt the basics to begin to conjugate verbs in any Spanish tense).

Don’t forget to listen to the other podcasts from the serie «Spanish verbs Basics»:

• Personal pronouns (Ep. 11)
• Usted y ustedes (Ep. 12)