Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.12 | Review of present tense verbs

Episode Date: June 8, 2010

In episode 12 of Coffee Break Spanish Season 2 we’ll review all the verbs which we’ve been learning over the past few months. Please note that lesson 12 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 212 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, bienninos, a coffee break Spanish. Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 52. And in this lesson, we're going to be going back through all the present tense verbs that we've been looking at recently. So that's regular verbs, A-R, E-R and I-R conjugations. It's also the radical changing verbs, reflexive verbs, and indeed some of the irregulars that we've had a look at already. Hope you enjoy this lesson. Okay, so as I explained there, we're really taking this opportunity to go through all.

all the present tense things that we've already learned, all the radical changing verbs, the reflexive verbs, the regular verbs and the irregular verbs that we've already covered so far. And we're going to begin with something very, very easy indeed, and that is regular AR verbs in the present tense. Let's take, for example, Ablar. Can we go through Ablar together? What does Avlar mean?

To speak. To speak, of course. So we're going to go through Ablar together. in its conjugation, starting with I speak. Ablo. Avlo. You speak. Ablas.

Ablas. He, she, it or you polite speaks. Avla. Avla. And we speak. Avlamos? Avlamos. And you, plural, informal, speak.

Avlais. Ablais. and they speak, or you, polite, plural speak. Ablan. Ablan. Very bien. Now, these six parts of the verb are very important, because we are going to use these six parts

in all the verbs that we're going to be learning in future lessons, and indeed in all the verbs that we've already learned. So, going through the full conjugation of Ablar, you would say, Ablo, Ablas, Abla, Abla. Ablamos, avlais, avlan. Ablo? Ablas, Abla,

Ablamos, ablais, avlain. Very well. Now, that's A.R. Verbs in the present tense.

As we've been learning other verbs, we have come across a few verbs like Comer and Bibier that don't end in A.R.

And we didn't really spend any time on these in previous lessons. So today we're going to learn the proper full conjugations of ER verbs and IR verbs. At the time, I didn't really want to confuse things, but I think you're ready for this now.

So let's look at ER verbs to begin with. And we'll take the example of Comer, meaning... To eat. Yeah, to eat. So let's conjugate comer in its six forms. To say, I eat, you say, como. Como? You eat is comes.

comes and he she it or you polite eats is Comey Comey Okay so let's think about these three forms Como comesh

Comey Como Comes Comey And compare them to the infinitive Comer Okay so there's an E in the infinitive Comer

And compare that to Ablar with an ar in the infinitive and a in the infinitive giving Ablo Ablas, Abla. It's really the same pattern. The only thing that changes is the vowel. So, como, ablo, comes, ablas, Come, abla. Okay, let's just go back to Comer. Como Comes Comee

Comeo Comey Any guesses as to what we eat would be Comeemos Very bien

Comemos And then you eat Comeys Comeys That's the plural informal form And they eat

Comein Exactly So we've got Como Comes Comee Comeemos, comes, comen Como, commas

Come, come Come, comeis, commens Comein Very well, as you can see you know this rhythm so well of A.R verbs that you can really transpose that into ER verbs and just change that one vowel

and you know the rhythm so well that is absolutely easy to form the ER verbs and indeed the IR verbs when we got onto them. Let's take a couple more examples of ER verbs now. We'll begin with with bender. Bender.

Bender means to sell. Bender. How would you say then? I sell. Bendo. Bendo. And you sell? Bendes?

Bendes. And he, she or it sells? Bende. Bende. Now, if you've ever been in a Spanish-speaking country, you may have seen a sign on, for example, a house saying, se vende, se vende.

Now, se vende literally means sells itself. It's like a reflexive verb, se vende. And it means this house sells itself. But of course, really, in other words, that means that the house is for sale. Se vende. And that's a sign that you quite often see on houses or flats in Spanish-speaking countries.

Let's move on. We've got we sell. Bendemos. Bendemos. Bendemos. You sell in the plural and formal, bendais. Bendais. And they sell. Bendin. Or indeed you, formal, plural, sell.

Bendin. Now, just as we had se vende, when we're talking about a house, se vende esta casa. you might also see se vendin for example maybe an advert in a newspaper se vending appartamitos

se bendin appartimitos okay so flats or apartments are sold are being sold se vending appartamitos literally flats or apartments sell themselves se vending

apartments okay let's look at one other E our verb and we'll look at A Prender, a word that we've used a hundred times. A Prender means To learn. To learn.

And now you're going to be able to conjugate to learn. A prender. I learn is Aprendo. Apprendo. You learn? Apprendes.

He, she, it learns. Apprende. We learn. Apprendemos. You learn. Apprendais. They learn. Aprenden.

Very well. Aprendo, Aprendes, Apreendemos, Aprendais, Aprenden. Aprendo, Aprendes,

Apreendemos, Aprendais, Apprenden. Very well. So, there you have the conjugations of ER verbs. Very straightforward.

Very similar to A.R. Verbs and just the key vowel changing. So the A of A.R verbs changes to E with ER verbs. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Let's now look at another conjugation. There only are three conjugations in Spanish, you'll be pleased to know. And the third conjugation is for I are verbs. Now, an example here would be bebier. Bibier. Now, Kara, can you remember what bibier means? To live.

To live, that's right. Now we had Mimir in its conjugated forms way way back, probably in lesson three or four, when we were learning to say, I live in whatever. So let's go through now the conjugation of Mimir. Can you remember how to say I live? Bibo. Mibo. Okay, Bibo. You live?

Bibes. Yeah, Bibes. Okay, and he, she or it lives. Bibi? Yeah. So let's think. about this we've got mebo, vivest, bive. Now given that we're talking about bivir and it's an iR verb you

might think well if we're following the rules with the a r and the er we would keep that vowel and use something like bb but that doesn't quite work here. It forms very similar endings in these first three parts to ER verbs. In fact they're identical. So mebo, Bibes, Bive. Bibo, Bibes, Bibi.

Okay, but when it comes to the we form, then you are going to use the I of the infinitive here. So you would say, we love, Bivimos. Bibimos. Vivimos.

Babimos. And the U plural form in Spain is Mivis. Bibis. Vivis. Bivis. And the V form goes back to the E.

So it's Biven. Biven. Let's run through the whole conjugation. Bibo, mimes, Bibo, bibbo, bibes, bube. Bibimos, bivis, biven. Bibimos, biven. Very bien.

In actual fact, it's quite tricky to say these, particularly the bivis form, because there's almost a tendency to stress that bibis like that with the other ablais and bendais but it's just bibis Bivis Okay and of course if you're in Latin America

then you don't really need to worry about this Bibi's form but it's always useful to recognise it because if you're reading any Spanish and the Spanish is coming from Spain then it's very likely that you would see it so let's look at some alternative IR verbs we've done Biber let's look at abrid.

Avrier means to open. You've already heard the word aberto, aberto, meaning open, yeah, like a shop or something like that, yeah. So, abrid is to open. How would you say, I open? Abrio, abro,

just abro. Abro. Abro. So, abro, la ventana. Abro, la bentana. La ventana. window. Abro la ventana?

How would you say? You open. Abres. Abres. And he, she or it opens? Abre. Now, what about we open? Abrinos?

Very well. Abrimos. Abriamos. And you, plural, open? Abris. What's your stress? Abris. it. Abris.

Abris. And they open. Abren. Avren. Very well. Abro, abres, abris, abris, abren. Abro, abres.

Abri, abris, abren. Perfect. Let's try one more, and we'll take another very common word, Escribier. Escribier. Escribier means to write.

Escribier. So I write I write You write Escribes He Sheer it writes Escribe We write

We write You write They write They write Very very Very good Yescribo Escribes

Escribe Escribes Escribes Escriben Escribe Escribe Escribe Escribis

They're Very bien. Now, I hope you're all remembering to do the actions that we learned for the different parts of the verb when we were reciting verbs for the first time back in Unit 5. Okay, that's about as much as you need to know about regular AR, IR and ER verbs in Spanish. But before we finish this podcast, we're just going to run through a couple of other things that we learned when we were looking at the present tense. The first of these is looking at radical changing verbs And in fact, a couple of the radical changing verbs that we learned were E-R and I-R verbs. Think of, for example,

Podder. Do you remember what Poder means? To be able to. Yeah. So our endings were Puedo, Puedes, Pue de, Podemos, Podais, Pueeden. So in addition to the radical change there,

when we were talking about poeido as opposed to podo or anything like that Podder in the infinitive but Puedo in the conjugated version we had the endings O, S, Emos, E, E's, N Puedo Pueh, Pue des Pueh,

Pueh de, Podemos, Paudais, Pueden. Very well. Now, the radical changing verbs that we looked at in the main lessons were verbs that changed O in the infinitive to U-E like Poder and also verbs that changed E in the infinitive

to what was that kind of A'i? I.e. Can you give me an example? Penzaar to think. He said Pienso. Can you conjugate the whole of Penzar? Pianso, Pianzas, Pianza

Pinsamos, Pinsais, Pinsan. Pianzan. Yeah, that's right. Pienzo, Pianzas, Pianzamos, pensais, Pianzis, so the IE comes in the first, second, third and the sixth part, and then the E of the infinitive is used,

the E of the infinitive is used in the fourth and fifth parts. Pensamos, pencise. Let's think for a moment about reflexive verbs. And reflexive verbs can be AR verbs, they can be ER verbs, IR verbs, radical changing verbs, or indeed irregular verbs. The difference with these ones is, of course, that they need a reflexive.

pronoun. Now, Kara, can we run through our reflexive pronouns, please? And we'll do this by revising a few of the reflexive verbs we covered. First of all, let's look at levantarse. Levantarse means... To get up? Yeah, to get up in the morning. So, I get up would be... Me levanto. Me levanto. Very well. Me levanto. It's kind of I get myself out of bed and so on. And what about lavarsee? Meaning To wash yourself? To wash yourself. So you could say you wash yourself. Te lavas?

Te lavas? Te lavas. Okay. So te, te being the reflexive pronoun for you, singular, informal form. Now what about he or she calls herself or himself So, So, me, te, se. Now, what about

we shower ourselves? Nos tuchamos? No stuchamos, yeah. The reflexive pronoun is nos. Nos tuchamos. Nos tuchamos. And you, all,

in the informal, plural form, You all put your makeup on from maquillarsse. Os maquiaeis. Very well. Os maquillais. Okay. And finally, what about they all go to sleep. They fall asleep.

Se duhrmen. Se duermen. Now note that duermen, dormiarse is a radical changing reflexive verb. Me duermo. Me duermo. So I fall asleep. Notice the difference between duermo.

Duermo is I sleep. But me doermo is I kind of put myself to sleep. I fall asleep. Me duermo. Me duermo. Te duermes? So you fall asleep. Se duerme?

Se duime. Se duerme, he or she falls asleep. And then it goes on, nos dormimos, os dormies, se duermen. And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break Spanish.

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