3.3: Spanish Grammar in Context

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ar Verbs (Regular) Present Tense

-ar verbs from the Spanish in Texas Corpus

hablar ‘to speak’
yo hablo	nosotros/as hablamos
tú hablas
él/ella/usted habla	ellos/as/ustedes hablan
past participle: hablado

Of the three verb groups (-ar, -er, -ir), –ar verbs are the most numerous. To conjugate, drop the –ar from the infinitive to form the stem. Next, add endings to the stem. The following example has three -ar verbs cambiar, estudiar, tomar conjugated in the present tense:

Pero te cambia mucho en la perspectiva ya cuando estudias más grande porque ya el estudio, ya lo tomas con mucha seriedad.But it changes you in your perspective when you study as an adult because now your studies, you take it much more seriously.Present tense endings: -o, -as, -a, -amos, -an