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¡Hola! Ready to learn how to share what you eat and where you live in Spanish? Today, we will master regular -er and -ir verbs!
In Spanish, verbs change their endings to show who is doing the action. We call this conjugation. Regular verbs that end in -er, like comer (to eat), and -ir, like vivir (to live), follow very similar patterns.
To change these verbs, we first chop off the ending (-er or -ir) to find the stem. For comer (to eat), the stem is 'com-'. Then, we add a new ending that matches the person, like adding '-o' for 'yo' (I).
Let's compare the endings! For 'yo' (I), both verb types end in '-o'. For 'tú' (you), -er verbs end in '-es' and -ir verbs also end in '-es'. They only differ in the 'nosotros' (we) form: -er uses '-emos', while -ir uses '-imos'.
Conjugate the verb escribir (to write) — ehs-kree-BEER — for the subject 'nosotros' (we).
- Identify the verb type: 'escribir' ends in -ir, so it is a regular -ir verb.
- Find the stem of the verb by removing the -ir ending. 'escribir' minus 'ir' leaves us with 'escrib-'.
- Look up the ending for 'nosotros' (we) for -ir verbs. The ending is '-imos'.
- Attach the '-imos' ending to the stem 'escrib-'. This gives us 'escribimos'.
- Put it all together: 'Nosotros escribimos' means 'We write'.
