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Speaking spanish?

Rick asked:


How do you say the following in spanish?
write, writing, witten
Eat, Eating, ate
run, running, ran
What do you change or add to change the tenses?

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  • Learn Spanish Vocabulary

    escribir, escribiendo, escrito
    comer, comiendo, comido
    correr, corriendo, corrido

    These are all er/ir verbs, so the rules are the same for conjugating them (in this instance)

    Get the “1001 Spanish Verbs” it’s a great book for Spanish students.

    Or use this website

    Peace

  • Learn Spanish Today

    The verbs change for first person/second person then for singular/plural in the Spanish language.

    Example: To write=Escribar
    I write, wrote, will write, am writing= escribo, escribio, escribire, escribiendo
    you (singular) escribas
    he/she escriba
    we escribamos
    you (plural) escribais
    they escriban
    I am writing=Estoy escribiendo

    run=ejecutar
    eat=comer,
    I eat, am eating, ate, will eat=como, comiendo, comi, comere

  • Learn Spainish

    write – escribir, escribiendo, escrito (irregular)
    eat – comer, comiendo, comido (which means “eaten,” not “ate”)
    run – correr (means “to run”), corriendo, corrido (means “run” like “had run” NOT “ran”)

    All infinitive forms of spanish verbs end in -ar, -ir, and -er

    For regular changing verbs, if the infinitive ends in -ar, like “hablar” take off the “-ar” and add “-ando.” For -er and -ir verbs, take off the last too letters and add “-iendo” like “comer -> comiendo” or “escribir -> escribiendo” These endings all form the English gerund which means “-ing.” Running, eating, etc.

    This is called the present progressive tense which is ONLY used in spanish to refer to actions occuring right now. For example there are two ways to say, “I’m learning spanish.” One way refers to a habitual action, like “I’m learning Spanish because I want to go to Ecuador.” The other way means that “I’m learning spanish right now because I’m reading a response on Yahoo answers.”

    “Yo aprendo el castellano” and “Yo estoy aprendiendo el castellano.”

    Written, eaten, run, etc. are all past participles. For the -ar verbs, you drop the -ar and add “-ado.”

    hablar – hablado
    to speak – spoken

    For -er -ir verbs you drop the end and add “ido”

    comer – comido
    to eat – eaten

    vivir – vivido
    to live – lived

    To form the past participles in spanish, it can be a little trickier because there are many irregular verbs; verbs that don’t follow the rules, for example, these words:

    escribir – escrito
    to write – written

    cubrir – cubierto
    to cover – covered

    abrir – abierto
    to open – open(ed)

    romper – roto
    to break – broken

    hacer – hecho
    to do – done
    to make – made

    decir – dicho
    to say – said
    to tell – told

    poner – puesto
    to put – put (like “had put”)

    ver – visto
    to see – seen

    Words like “ate” and “ran” or “wrote” are words that require a differect form of conjugation. There are three other ways to use the past tense in spanish: The preterite, the indicative imperfect, or the subjunctive imperfect.

    To say “ate”
    one may say: comió, comía, or comiera (which is the same as “comiese” depending on the region)

    “He ate” as in “he ate at 12″ use the preterite
    “Él comió a las doce”

    “He ate” as in “he ate every day of his life,” use the imperfect indicative
    “Él comía cada día de su vida”

    “He ate” as in “If he ate, then he wouldn’t be hungry,” then use the imperfect subjunctive
    “Si él comiera, que el no tendría hambre.”

    Also, “he drank before he ate,” you must use the imperfect subjunctive.”
    “Él bebió antes de que él comiera.”

    “Él comió antes de que él bebiera.” means he ate before he drank.

    If that’s not confusing enough, then you’ll love the fact that the verbs change even more to fit the subject pronoun.

    I ate – yo comí, yo comía, yo comiera (comiese)

    you ate – tú comiste, tú comías, tú comieras (comieses)

    (there are 3 ways to say ‘you’ in spanish- they are- tú, vos, and usted–im not familiar with the vos conjugation)

    he, she, or you ate – (él, ella, usted) comió, comía, or comiera (comiese)

    we ate – nosotros comimos, comíamos, or comiéramos (comiésemos)

    you-all ate (informal, Spain) – vosotros comisteis, comíais, or comiérais (comiéseis)

    you-all ate (formal, latino-america) – ustedes comieron, comían, or comieran (comiesen)

    Basically–
    I’d recommend the 501 Spanish Verb book to save money. You don’t need to know 1001 verbs; you’ll likely catch on to the patterns after the 501st verb.

    That book also explains how to change a verb into each tense and when, why, how, and where each tense is used.

    I’d also recommend taking a few spanish classes.

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