Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 20 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Free Course20
- 1.11. Free Daily Immersion Practice 1
- 1.22. Free Daily Immersion Practice 2
- 1.33. Getting to Know Spanish Nouns
- 1.44. From Nouns to Pronouns, Making Sentences Flow
- 1.55. Getting Comfortable with Spanish Adjectives
- 1.66. How to Tell Verbs Apart
- 1.77. The Role of Adverbs in Spanish and English
- 1.88. Let’s Explore Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- 1.99. Definite and Indefinite Articles (El, La, Un, Una)
- 1.1010. Direct Objects, What They Do and How They Work
- 1.1111. “Ser” and “Estar”, Two Verbs, Two Worlds
- 1.1212. Mastering the Conditional Mood in Spanish
- 1.1313. From the Indicative to the Conditional Mood
- 1.1414. Mastering Spanish Conjunctions
- 1.1515. Mastering the Spanish Perfect Tense
- 1.1616. “Haber” vs “Tener” What’s the Difference?
- 1.1717. Preterit vs Imperfect Structures
- 1.1818. Asking questions in Spanish The Art of Asking Questions
- 1.1919. Let’s Review the Parts of Speech in Spanish
- 1.2020. The Present Subjunctive Made Simple
5. Getting Comfortable with Spanish Adjectives
1. How to Tell Verbs Apart, The Easy Way
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1. How to Tell Verbs Apart — The Easy Way / La manera más fácil de diferenciar “los verbos”
Spanish verbs in their infinitive form (the “to” form, like “to speak”) always end in one of three ways: -ar, -er, or -ir. This ending tells you exactly which conjugation group the verb belongs to — it’s that simple!
- -ar verbs (most common, e.g., hablar – to speak, cantar – to sing): Follow one set of patterns.
- -er verbs (e.g., comer – to eat, beber – to drink): Another pattern.
- -ir verbs (e.g., vivir – to live, escribir – to write): Very similar to -er, with just a few differences.
Just look at the ending of the infinitive, and you’ll know how to conjugate it in any tense. No guessing needed — the verb tells you itself! (Bonus: -ar verbs are the easiest and most regular.)
2. Let’s See How Verbs Work in Everyday Spanish
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2. Let’s See How Verbs Work in Everyday Spanish / Veamos cómo usar los verbos fácilmente en la vida cotidiana.
Verbs are the heart of any Spanish sentence, they tell us what’s happening, Unlike English, Spanish verbs change a lot depending on who is doing the action and when.
Take the common verb hablar (to speak):
- Yo hablo (I speak)
- Tú hablas (You speak – informal)
- Él/Ella habla (He/She speaks)
- Nosotros hablamos (We speak)
- Vosotros habláis (You all speak – Spain)
- Ellos/Ellas hablan (They speak)
See how the ending changes? That’s called conjugation. Most everyday verbs follow similar patterns.
Here are some useful verbs in the present tense:
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Ser (to be – permanent things)
Soy estudiante. (I am a student.) -
Estar (to be – temporary states or location)
Estoy cansado. (I am tired.)¿Dónde estás? (Where are you?) -
Tener (to have)
Tengo hambre. (I’m hungry – literally “I have hunger.”)Tenemos un perro. (We have a dog.)
3. Let’s Build Sentences With Verbs, Step by Step
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3. Let’s Build Sentences With Verbs, Step by Step / Hagamos oraciones en Español, paso a paso
Verbs are the main part of sentences, they show action or states of being. They tell you who and when the action was done. Start with a simple subject, add a strong verb, and watch your sentence come to life!
Step 1: Choose a subject (who or what).
Step 2: Pick a verb (when, what they do or are).
Step 3: Add details to make it interesting.
Example: The cat → The cat sleeps → The cat sleeps on the couch.
El gato → El gato duerme → El gato duerme en el sofá.
4. The Simple Structure: Your Shortcut to Clear Spanish
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4. The Simple Structure: Your Shortcut to Clear Spanish / Cómo utilizar “la estructura simple” en la vida cotidiana
Verb structures are important in all languages, they express the tense and how often an action is done.
In both languages, Simple Structure is used for actions that you do habitually.
That’s why most of the time you’ll add “last week, last year, sometimes, everyday, every week,…” at the end of a simple structure sentense
5. The 5 Core Spanish Structures
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5. The 5 Core Spanish Structures / Domina las 5 Estructuras Base
Spanish verb phrases can be built using these five core structures, allowing for precise expression of time, aspect, and description:
- Simple: Basic single-verb forms (e.g., hablo, hablaba) for straightforward actions.
- Perfect: Uses haber + past participle (e.g., he hablado) to indicate completed actions.
- Progressive: Uses estar + gerund (e.g., estoy hablando) to show ongoing actions.
- Descriptive: Combines ser or estar + adjective (e.g., es alto, está cansado) for states or descriptions.
- Compound Descriptive: Perfect or progressive applied to descriptive structures (e.g., ha estado enfermo, estaba siendo difícil) for nuanced ongoing or completed states.
Mastering these structures forms the foundation of fluent Spanish expression.
6. The 5 Core Spanish Structures 2
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6. The 5 Core Spanish Structures 2/ Domina las 5 Estructuras Base 2
Spanish verb phrases can be built using these five core structures, allowing for precise expression of time, aspect, and description:
- Simple: Basic single-verb forms (e.g., hablo, hablaba) for straightforward actions.
- Perfect: Uses haber + past participle (e.g., he hablado) to indicate completed actions.
- Progressive: Uses estar + gerund (e.g., estoy hablando) to show ongoing actions.
- Descriptive: Combines ser or estar + adjective (e.g., es alto, está cansado) for states or descriptions.
- Compound Descriptive: Perfect or progressive applied to descriptive structures (e.g., ha estado enfermo, estaba siendo difícil) for nuanced ongoing or completed states.
Mastering these structures forms the foundation of fluent Spanish expression.
