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There are three types of regular verbs in Spanish:

verbs that end in –ar, verbs that end in –er, and verbs
that end in –ir. You’ve already learned –ar verbs:

yo hablo nosotros hablamos


tú hablas
él, ella habla ellos hablan
Now for –er verbs:
To form –er verbs, take off the –er and then add the
following endings:
comer (to eat)
-o -emos como comemos
-es comes
-e -en come comen
Notice that the only difference between –er verbs and –ar
verbs is that you use e’s instead of a’s:

-ar -er
-o -amos -o -emos
-as -es
-a -an -e -en
Now for –ir verbs. Drop the –ir and add the following
endings:
Vivir(to live)
-o -imos Vivo Vivimos
-es Vives
-e -en Vive Viven
Do you see what the difference is between –er and –ir
verbs? They’re just alike except for the nosotros forms:

-er -ir
-o -emos -o -imos
-es -es
-e -en -e -en
So the only difference between –ar verbs and
–er verbs is that you use e’s instead of a’s in
the –er verbs. And the only difference
between –er verbs and –ir verbs is the
nosotros forms.
So when you’re conjugating verbs, be sure you know
if the infinitive (the form ending in –ar or –er or -ir;
e.g., hablar and comer and vivir are infinitives) ends
with an –ar, –er, or –ir so you’ll know what ending to
put on it:

You talk: hablas HABLAR we talk: hablamos


You eat: comes COMER we eat: comemos
You live: vives VIVIR We Live: Vivimos
Practice
 I put the shoes in the room.
 I do the homework.
 We set the table in the dinning room.
 They make the bed in the bedroom.
 I live with my grandparents, cousins and my
dog.
 We live near the department store.
 You live far from the waterfall.

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