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24 Jun 10

Ver Conjugation: Ver Tenses Conjugated

Ver Conjugation:

Ver Conjugation

Ver Conjugation

The Spanish verb VER, which translates as ‘to see‘ or ‘to watch‘ in English, does not cause that many problems for most students, however it has certain irregularities that will need to be mastered, the most important being those that affect the present tense conjugation. Below you will find each tense Ver conjugation with the irregular forms highlighted in red.

Gerund:
viendo - seeing

Past Participle:
visto - seen

Present Tense of Ver – presente:

  • yo veo – I see
  • tú ves/vés – you see
  • él/ella ve/- he/she sees
  • usted ve/ – you see (polite)
  • nosotros/as vemos – we see
  • vosotros/as véis- you see (plural)
  • ellos/ellas ven/vén - they see
  • ustedes ven/vén- you see (polite plural)

Preterite Tense of Ver – pretérito:

  • yo vi – I saw
  • tú viste – you saw
  • él/ella vio – he/she saw
  • usted vio – you saw (polite)
  • nosotros/as vimos – we saw
  • vosotros/as visteis – you saw (plural)
  • ellos/ellas vieron – they saw
  • ustedes vieron – you saw (polite plural)

Imperfect Tense of Ver – imperfecto:

  • yo veía – I used to see
  • tú veías – you used to see
  • él/ella veía – he/she used to see
  • usted veía – you used to see (polite)
  • nosotros/as veíamos – we used to see
  • vosotros/as veíais – you used to see (plural)
  • ellos/ellas veían – they used to see
  • ustedes veían – you used to see (polite plural)

Future Tense of Ver – futuro:

  • yo veré – I will see
  • tú verás – you will see
  • él/ella verá – he/she will see
  • usted verá – you will see (polite)
  • nosotros/as veremos – we will see
  • vosotros/as veréis – you will see (plural)
  • ellos/ellas verán – they will see
  • ustedes verán – you will see (polite plural)

Conditional Tense of Ver – condicional:

  • yo vería – I would see
  • tú verías – you would see
  • él/ella vería – he/she would see
  • usted vería – you would see (polite)
  • nosotros/as veríamos – we would see
  • vosotros/as veríais – you would see (plural)
  • ellos/ellas verían – they would see
  • ustedes verían – you would see (polite plural)

Present subjunctive Tense of Ver – presente del subjuntivo:

  • yo vea- I see
  • veas- you see
  • él/ella vea- he/she see
  • usted vea- you see (polite)
  • nosotros/as veamos- we see
  • vosotros/as veáis- you see (plural)
  • ellos/ellas vean- they see
  • ustedes vean- you see (polite plural)

Imperfect subjunctive Tense of Ver – imperfecto del subjuntivo:

  • yo viera/viese – I saw
  • tú vieras/vieses – you saw
  • usted/él/ella viera/viese – he/she and you saw
  • nosotros/as viéramos/viésemos – we saw
  • vosotros/as vierais/vieseis – you saw (plural)
  • ustedes/ellos/ellas vieran/viesen – they or you (polite plural) saw

Ver Imperative – imperativo:

  • (tú) ¡Ve! or ¡Vé! - See!
  • (usted) ¡Vea! – See!
  • (nosotros/as) ¡Veamos! - Let’s See!
  • (vosotros/as) ¡Ved! – See!
  • (ustedes) !Vean! - See!

There are three other verbs that use the exact conjugation patterns as ver but they are not used that often but are worthwhile noting, they are: entrever to partially see‘ or ‘to make up‘, preverto predict‘ or ‘to preview‘ and reverto review‘.

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23 Jun 10

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21 Jun 10

El Verbo Gustar – Gustar Conjugation

Verbo Gustar

El Verbo Gustar

El verbo gustar (The verb gustar), which literally means ‘to please’ but is translated and used instead as the equivalent to the English ‘to like’, is something of an anomaly to English speakers because it is used totally differently to how we use the English verb it stands for.

I wrote an article some time ago on how to use the verb Gustar and rather than rewite the same information I will post the article here:

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El Verbo Gustar – Using The Spanish Verb Gustar

In Spanish, there is no exact equivalent to the English verb ‘to like’, actually, the nearest in both meaning and, most importantly, in how it is used, is the verb gustar, ‘el verbo gustar‘, which literally translated into English is ‘to please’.

To emphasize this; if you were to say in English, ‘I like my coffee strong‘, the Spanish equivalent, would translate as ‘Strong coffee pleases me‘.

Using Gustar is quite simple when compared to other verbs in Spanish.

Although, not strictly an irregular Spanish verb, gustar does not follow any of the regularly used Spanish verb patterns, whether they are irregular or regular and it only ever uses the 3rd person forms, irrespective of the tense.

The make-up of a sentence when using the verb gustar is the opposite as it is in English. (To give a grammatical explanation; the English subject becomes the indirect object and the English object becomes the subject.}

Now…to put that explanation into plain English so that everyone can understand!

Consider this phrase: ‘I like my coffee strong‘, in this sentence ‘I‘ is the subject and ‘coffee‘ is the object, Compare that with this sentence, ‘Strong coffee pleases me‘, where ‘coffee‘ is the subject and ‘me‘ is the indirect object.

As I have said, gustar is always used in the third person and this happens because it relates to what is liked, instead of whom or what likes it.

If what is ‘liked‘ is singular or, if it’s an action that is ‘likedgusta is used, if, however, what is ‘liked‘ is plural you would use gustan.

Gustar Conjugation of the present tense in the singular and plural

:

  • Me gusta/gustan – I like…or, I like it
  • Te gusta/gustan – You like…or, you like it
  • Le gusta/gustan – He/She/You like…or, he/she/you like it
  • Nos gusta/gustan - We like…or, we like it
  • Os gusta/gustan – You like…or, you like it
  • Les gusta/gustan – They/you like…or, they/you like it.

Here are some examples:

  • Me gusta el deporte. – I like sport.
  • Nos gusta el colegio. – We like school.
  • A Carlos le gusta hablar. – Carlos likes talking

Gustar in the plural:

  • Me gustan los coches. – I like cars
  • Nos gustan los trenes. – We like trains
  • Les gustan los perros – They like the dogs.

Gustar isn’t the only Spanish verb that is formed like this, encantar ‘to enchant/love’, apetecer ‘to fancy/crave for’, quedar ‘to stay/remain’, faltar ‘to be missing’, parecer ‘to seem’, and doler ‘to hurt/ache/mourn’ are a few of the commonly used verbs that are used in this way.

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I hope that this will help you understand the use of the Spanish verb gustar a little better. There is another very common way that gustar is used and that is in the conditional tense and you can read about it on my next post but before that you should check out the video below that looks at how gustar is used…it never fails to put a smile on my face!

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Fantastic video clip, hey!

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13 Jun 10

The Spanish Subjunctive is a strange concept to English speakers as it is very rarely used in the English language, in Spanish however it is used frequently. The subjunctive is a verb mood that is typically used to express a wish, emotion, opinion, judgement, possibility or something that has not yet happened and if you need further information regarding an explanation of how the subjunctive is used in Spanish there is a link at the end of this post that will help you.

This post, however, will provide the irregular conjugation of each of the tenses of the much used Spanish verb Ser in the subjunctive.

Subjunctive Present Tense (Subjuntivo presente)

  • yo sea
  • tú seas
  • él/ella sea
  • usted sea
  • nosotros/as seamos
  • vosotos/as seáis
  • ellos/ellas sean
  • ustedes sean

Subjunctive Imperfect Tense (Subjuntivo pretérito imperfecto)

  • yo fuera/fuese
  • tú fuera/fueses
  • él/ella fuera/fuese
  • usted fuera/fuese
  • nosotros/as fuéramos/fuésemos
  • vosotos/as fuerais/fuereis
  • ellos/ellas fueran/fuesen
  • ustedes fueran/fuesen

Just to add to any confusion you may be suffering from, it should be noted that there are two different set of endings for the imperfect tense in the subjunctive both mean the same and either can be used!

Subjunctive Future Tense (Subjuntivo futuro imperfecto)

  • yo fuere
  • tú fueres
  • él/ella fuere
  • usted fuere
  • nosotros/as fuéremos
  • vosotos/as fuereis
  • ellos/ellas fueren
  • ustedes fueren

Here are some links to other ‘ser‘ related posts:

…and if you need a full and complete Ser Conjugation chart one can be downloaded and printed from the Ser conjugation page on the main site.

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13 Jun 10

Understanding all aspects of Ser conjugation is extremely important to anyone who is learning Spanish and arguably the most important of the ser conjugation patterns to master is that of the indicative present tense.

However, before you even learn the conjugation of the irregular Spanish verb ser it is a requirement to understand how it is used, or even if ser is the verb you should even be using! This is because, unlike as in English, Spanish has two verbs that that are used that mean ‘to be‘, and these are, as you probably know already…ser and estar.

The rules surrounding the use of ser and estar may seem complicated at first but do become much easier after continuous and regular use, thus making the ser vs estar question a distant memory very quickly for the majority of students. Unfortunately though, before this can happen, a period of study is required and in order to master this area of Spanish efficiently you will need concise and accurate information that relates to the differences between these two Spanish verbs and also the conjugation of the verb ser… all this information can be found here, on this blog, and on the main website of irregularspanishverbs.com and all the links you will need are listed below:

Present Tense Conjugation of Ser
Imperfect Tense Conjugation of Ser
Ser vs Estar
Preterite Tense of Ser
Ser Subjunctive Conjugation

…and you can visit this link for a full and complete Ser Conjugation chart that can be downloaded and printed.
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