Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.07 | Radical changing verbs

Episode Date: February 15, 2010

In lesson 7 it’s time to take a look at radical changing verbs, verbs which have some regular spelling changes in certain parts of the verb. Once you get used to these patterns you’ll be conjugating verbs like querer, pensar, poder and volver without a problem! Please note that lesson 7 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 207 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, good days, how are we are We are Mark and I'm here to help us with your Spanish. This is Coffee Break Spanish Lesson 47. And in this lesson, we're going to be looking at some regularly irregular verbs, if that makes sense. There's a special type of verb in Spanish called a radical changing verb or a spelling changing verb. And these verbs have regular patterns of irregularity,

if that makes sense. It all will after this lesson. So have a little bit. and hopefully everything will become clear. Okay, so we're going to be looking, as I said, at a couple of other verbs today. And these verbs, well, the first of these verbs, is KERERERERER. That's right.

Now, we've actually come across this word before when we were learning the word, Kiero. Kierro. Now, can you remember what Kiero means? I want. That's right. In fact, it's got two meanings. It can mean, I want, Kiero cantar.

I want. to sing and it also has another meaning in the phrase te quiero can you remember what that means does it mean I love you it does indeed yet the Kiero can mean I love you so Kiero means I love or I want from the verb KER now we've got to think today in particular about spelling KER the infinitive is spelled Q you E-R-R, KER-E-R.

However, the word Kiero is spelled K-U-I-E-R-O. So there's a slightly different spelling in the I form of the verb. And this is an example of a type of verb that's very common in Spanish, and it's got a variety of names. You can call it a spelling-changing verb, a stem-changing verb,

or the one I like best is the radical changing verb. So, KERER is an example of a radical changing verb. And all this means is that the spelling changes in certain parts of the present tense. So going from KERER, you have I want,

Kiero. Kiero. You want. Kieres? Kieres. And he, she or it wants. Kere. Kierry.

However, when it comes to we want, you go back to the spelling of the infinitive. So it becomes not kie-remos but keremos. Keremos. Keremos. And the U plural in Spain is Kareis. And then for the final part it goes back to the same spelling as the first, second and third person singular forms. Kiero, Kieres, Kier, and Kieren.

So let's go through the whole of this verb together. Kiero? Kierre? Kieres? Kieres? Kierre? Kere? Kere?

Keremos? Kereys? Kereys? Kieres? Kieren. Kieran Okay and let's do it a little bit faster Kero

Kierres Kere Kiero Kieres Kere Karemos Kareis Kareis Keren Kremas

Kareis Kieren Now when we learned Kiero in an earlier lesson we learned that KER is in fact a modal verb

and the fact that it's a modal verb means that it can be followed by an infinitive and it will mean then I want to do something. I want to sing. I want to sing.

What would Quere's Tomar a coffee? Do you want to have a coffee? Yeah. Quere's to a coffee. Do you want to have a coffee?

So how would you say then he wants to dance? Quere Bailar? Quere bailer? So he wants to dance, Kierre, Bailar.

Okay, now remembering these spelling changes, how would you say, we want to eat? Karemos Komen, Komen, exactly. Karemos,

Komen, not kiehremos. Keremos, not, Keremus, Keremas, Kameh, Kerem. Very well. Now, if I was asking a group of people in Spain, do you want to dine in a restaurant this evening?

See if we can put that together. So let's first of all work out the verb. Do you want, plural? Quereis. To dine. Cener. In a restaurant? In a restaurant?

This evening. This night? This night or this time, too, this time. depends really when exactly in the evening that you would want. So the whole thing together, do you all want to dine in a restaurant this evening? Quereys dinner in a restaurant this night? Quereys tenar in a restaurant this night? Quereys dinner in a restaurant this night?

Very well, excellent. Okay, finally, let's look at they want. So we could say they want to learn Spanish in Cue. Cuba? Kieran . Kiern Koeba?

Koeba, exactly. Kieran to learn Spanish in Cuba. Perfect. So we've got

Kiero, Kere, Keremos, Kareis, Kere Karemos, Kareis, Kierin.

Kieran. Kieran. Okay, very well. Now, this spelling change that we've learned here that e becoming i.e. when it's conjugated in the first, second, third and sixth parts of the verb, is something that you'll come across time and time again when you're learning

verbs. In fact, a very common verb is the verb to think, and that is pensar. Penza. But pensar in the infinitive doesn't become penso in the first person, it becomes So, Pienzo. Pienzo. Pienzo. Pienzo. So the verb is conjugated. Pienzo, Pianz, Pianza.

But then for the Nosotros form, the first person plural, it goes back to penzamos. Pensamos. And then the Vosotros form, the U plural, it's pensais. And finally for the they form, it's back to Pianzan. So let's go through that together. Pienzo. Pienzaz. Pianz.

Pienza. Pienza. Pensamos. Pensamos. Pensas. Penzais. Piansan. Pian san.

Very well. Now. so and pensed generally can be used to expand your range of vocabulary because rather than just saying I am going to a restaurant this evening how would you say that boy a restaurant this night boy in a restaurant this no so rather than saying boy a restaurant you could see I think I am going to a restaurant this evening and in Spanish you have to say I think that I'm going to a restaurant. So, Pienso K'i

a restaurant. Pienzo K'i boy at a restaurant. Now notice in this situation, the boy part, whatever follows, Pienso K, is a conjugated verb. It's not the infinitive, like it was with Kiero. Kiero, Bailar. But Pienzo Koe,

I think I am dancing. Pienzo que bailo. Pianso that's obviously a bit of a silly example but you get the idea. Pienzo ke followed by a conjugated verb. Okay so let's just consider this again. In the infinitives, KER and PENZAR, the letter E is found. But when you conjugate these verbs in parts 1, 2, 3 and 6,

that E changes to an IE. So, Pienzo, Pianzas, Pianza, Pinsamos, pensais, and Kiero, Kieres, Kieres, Kieres, Kieres, Kieren. So these are the stem-changing verbs, or the radical changing verbs, or the spelling changing verbs. It's all the same thing.

They all mean that the infinitive changes in the conjugation for parts 1, 2, 3 and 6. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Goughby, Spani, you can still practice your Spanish with our regular posts on social media. Find us on Facebook, just search for Coffee Break Spanish. We're Learn Spanish on Twitter, and you can keep up with the team through our regular posts on Instagram.

Follow Coffee Break Languages. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now, there are other types of changes as well. It's not always E to I-E. Let's consider the verb, Poder. Pod-D-E-R means to be able to.

And it's another modal verb, like querere. So if you say I am able to, or indeed another translation of this is I can, you would say, Puedo. Puedo. Note that Pue-E-D-O, not P-O-D-O-L-L-I-O, like the infinitive Poder, P-O-D-R, P-U-E-O, P-U-E-D-O. P-O.

Now, the endings of Poder are very similar to KERER. So, Pue-E-D-O, Pue-E, Pue-E, Puedo Puedes Puele Now do you recognize Puede in there? Yes, from

Cepuede. From Cuebe, Cuebe, meaning can one? Can you do this? Can one do this? Se Puede? Or, Puede

meaning he, she or it can. So Puedo Puedes, Puede? Puez, Puez. Podemos?

PODemos. Podais. Puei. Pueden. Okay, so let's run through those last three again. Podemos, podais, Pueden. Podemos, Paudais,

Pudent. Yeah, Podemos, Poudeys, Pueden. So the one, two, three, and six, again, are the U-E. Pue, Pueh, and Puees, Pueden, but four and five are Podemos, Podais. Podemos, podais. Very well. And just one thing when you're pronouncing that,

Vosotros form, the podais. The I and the I of podais kind of run together. There's not really three syllables in there. Poh, de, is. But you run the deiz together, so Paudais. Paudais. Exactly. Okay.

So let's try using Poder in some translations. How would you say, can I dance? Puedo bailar? Very well. Puedo bailar. How would you say, can you eat in a restaurant? Puedes. Comeer in a restaurant.

Okay, come in a restaurant or indeed, Cener, if you were talking about dining. Can you dine in a restaurant? Can you dinar in a restaurant? Again, probably not the most sensible examples, but we're trying to get the pattern here. How would you say, can we go to the cinema?

Podemos... ...is to be absolutely clear here. We do need to use the infinitive in English, although the infinitive in English normally starts with the word to, to do, to go, to sing, to dance and so on. And if we're saying I can go or can we go to the cinema for example, we don't need to say can we to go to the cinema. But if you wanted to translate Podemos as are we able to go to the cinema, then we have the to go in there.

Really just to make sure that when you're translating, Podemos iar al-cine. You remember that the year is the infinitive. and when you're translating back from English into Spanish can we go to the cinema go has to be the infinitive because it's following can we which is a modal verb

that might seem a little bit complicated but hopefully it's beginning to make sense okay now Puedo coming from Poder shows an example of another radical change that's the O in the infinitive of Poder

becoming UE in the conjugated form. And there's another verb that we've already come across that does exactly this. Can you think of any word that you've come across that has that way sound in it, the U-E? What about Wuelbo? Exactly. That was exactly the word I was thinking of.

Welbo, as in Welbo at Casa at Las 4, or something like that, means I come back, I return. and it comes from the word volver so in the infinitive you have the O letter O Bolver and in the conjugated

form you have Vuelvo So let's see if we can conjugate volver What's I return? Vuelbo You return

Vuelbes Wuelbes Mm-hmm And he she or it returns Vuelbe? Wuelbe, exactly. Now, how would you say

we return? Volvemos? Very bien. It's Bolvemos, not Vuevemos, but volvemos. Volvemos from the infinitive Volver. And the

U plural return? Volveis? Volveis. And finally, they return. Wulben. Wulven, exactly. Now, that's really good, because

you've been able to work out the whole of that conjugation based on the fact that you know Bolwer is a radical changing verb and that you know the pattern the pattern being O changing to you E and that's really as much as we're going to cover when we're talking about radical changing verbs there are some other changes then we'll come across these in time but whenever we say in the future now watch that's a radical changing verb you'll know which parts change and how the change works And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break Spanish. Thanks for joining us and we hope it's been useful.

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