Spanish Verbs
 Welcome to Spanish 1
I hope you enjoy your
time in class.
 This introductory
presentation will
review two key
concepts: conjugation
and agreement.
Identifying Verbs
 Let’s begin with a few
English verbs!
Every day I wake up at 6:00.
 The verb describes the
state or action.
 Every complete sentence
needs a verb. Imagine
trying to make sense out
of “Every day I up at
6:00.”
 Every complete sentence
also needs a subject – the
who? part of the
sentences. Imagine trying
to make sense out of
“Every day wake up at
6:00.”
Every morning I wake up at 6:00.
 You can identify the
verb by making some
changes to the
sentence. Change the
subject and see what
happens. In this case,
change “I” to “she”
and see what happens.
Every morning she wakes up…
 The word wake
changed to wakes
because we are talking
about a different
person.
Every morning I wake up at 6:00.
 This trick doesn’t
always tell us which
word is the verb,
because English verbs
don’t change very
often.
 To illustrate, change
the subject of the
original sentence to
“we,” “you,” and
“they.”
We wake up / You wake up…
 The verb wake doesn’t
change!
 So there is another
way to check for the
verb: change the time.
 Let’s do that by
changing “Every
morning” to
“yesterday.”
Yesterday I woke up at 6:00.
 The word that changed
was wake, so that is
the verb.
 You can also change
the time to
“tomorrow” and wake
will change again.
Tomorrow I will wake up at 7:00.
 To review, there are
two tricks you can use
to tell which is the
verb: change the
subject and change the
time. There is more to
verbs than what
you’ve seen here, but
this will get your
started.
Conjugations
 When we make changes to
a verb, we call it
conjugating.
 English verbs have
different forms: go, goes,
went, gone, going.
 When we have to decide
between “go” and “goes,”
we are conjugating the
verb “go.”
Agreement
 Of course, it’s
important to get the
right form! You can’t
say “She go” any more
than you can say “I
goes.” When you put
the correct forms
together, it’s called
agreement.
That’s all, folks!
 Now you are
ready to work on
the first Spanish
verb SER