Conjugation is key to understanding verbs from "summary" of The Everything Spanish Grammar Book by Julie Gutin
Understanding how verbs are conjugated is crucial in mastering the Spanish language. Conjugation refers to changing the form of a verb to indicate the subject, tense, and mood of a sentence. In Spanish, verbs are conjugated to match the subject of the sentence, which can be a person, place, thing, or idea. Each subject pronoun (yo, tú, él/ella/usted, nosotros/nosotras, vosotros/vosotras, ellos/ellas/ustedes) corresponds to a different conjugation of the verb. This means that the verb ending changes depending on who is performing the action. For example, the verb "hablar" (to speak) is conjugated as "hablo" for "I speak," "hablas" for "you speak," and so on. Verbs in Spanish are also conjugated to indicate the tense of the action. There are different verb tenses in Spanish, such as present, past, future, and conditional. Each tense has its own set of conjugation rules that determine how the verb changes to indicate when the action took place. For example, in the present tense, regular -ar verbs like "hablar" end in -o for yo, -as for tú, -a for él/ella/usted, -amos for nosotros/nosotras, -áis for vosotros/voso...
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