Conjugation can be really annoying, but when you get over it, it makes your Spanish a lot better. If you use the infinitive form of verbs all the time you will sound like a not smart person.. Say you wanted to say "I am ending your singing." or something like that.
Yo terminar tú cantar.
This is an grammatical failure and any Spanish speaking person whose singing you are trying to interrupt will likely ignore you. This sentence translates roughly as...
I to end your to sing.
Wow, aren't you unintelligent? There are a few simple rules to clean up your verbs though.
Before you start conjugating you have to realize you can use the infinitive given the right sentence. Say you wanted to say "I want to sing." You could use "cantar" for "to sing" and it would be grammatically correct.
Now, after you understand all that, you can follow the easy rules for this. When you conjugate, you simply change the end of the verb. The ending has nothing to do with gender with verbs, it is all about your pronouns. You may have to look into this for there might be a difference in the formal/informal "you" but there likely is not.
Chop off the "ar" and add one of these based on the pronoun (assuming you know these basic pronouns)
Yo - o
Tú/Usted - as
Él/Ella - a
Nosotros/Nosotras - amos
Vosotros/Vosotras (Spain only) - áis
Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes - an
That's all there is to it for present tense -ar verbs. Unfortunately with Spanish there is a LOT of conjugating left to learn, but over time it starts to come naturally.
Hopefully this helps, even if it didn't, thanks for reading! |