1. AP Spanish Conjugations Lela Biggus

2. Contents • Why Conjugate? • Past Tense • Preterite Conjugations • Imperfect Conjugations • Present Tense

3. Why Conjugate? • In Spanish, we conjugate verbs to match the subject, or do-er, of the verb. • There is an infinitive of every verb, which ends in either –ar, -er or –ir. (ex: cantar, correr, vivir) • The ending of those infinitives is replaced with a conjugation to become specific to the subject. (either yo, tu, el-ella, nosotros, vosotros, ellos/ellas)

4. Past Tense • There are two kinds of past tense conjugations in Spanish: Preterite and Imperfect. • The preterite tense is used to refer to actions that occurred at a fixed point in time. • The imperfect tense is used to refer to actions in the past that occurred repeatedly.

5. PreteriteConjugations -arverbs é aste ó amos asteis aron -er verbs, -ir verbs í iste ió imos isteis ieron example: hablar hablé hablaste habló hablamos hablasteis hablaron examples: comer, vivir comí comiste comió comimos comisteis comieron viví viviste vivió vivimos vivisteis vivieron

6. Imperfect Conjugations -arverbs aba abas aba ábamos abais aban -er verbs, -ir verbs ía ías ía íamos íais ían example: hablar hablaba hablabas hablaba hablábamos hablabais hablaban example: vivir vivía vivías vivía vivíamos vivíais vivían

7. Present Tense • to conjugate regular verbs, simply drop the ending (-ar, -er, or –ir) and add one of the following: *This form of a verb is often the most preferable conjugation because it is easiest to do* -ar o amosas áisa an -er/-ir oemoseséise en

8. AP Spanish Conjugations Lela Biggus