Let's pause for a moment and have a quick chat about verbs.
These are extremely important as they are basically the backbone of any language.
Now, what actually defines as a verb? The easy definition is to whatever.
For example, to talk, to eat, to live.
Full verbs are also known as the infinitive, which is the more grammatically correct name.
In Spanish, all infinitives end in R.
This makes them really easy to spot.
There are only three possible endings for Spanish verbs.
AR, ER and IR.
Here are some examples of what that looks like.
If we were to translate these three verbs, to talk, to eat and to live,
in Spanish it would be hablar, comer, bebir.
We can see how each verb ends in each of the three possible endings.
We have hablar ending in AR, comer ending in ER and bebir which is ending in IR.
An infinitive in Spanish must end in AR, ER or IR.
These are the only three possibilities.
Also, another important thing is that Spanish doesn't include the word
to before the verb like we do in English.
To talk, to eat, to live.
But in Spanish, that's already included in the verb itself
and is represented by the AR, ER or IR.
So, once you spot one of these endings,
you know instantly that you are dealing with a full verb or in other words, the infinitive.
Now, how do we actually use verbs?
Well, of course, we use verbs to talk about ourselves or others.
And in order to do this, from any verb we will have conjugations
such as I want, he wants, you want and so on.
In the next lesson, we are going to look at three very powerful and useful verbs in Spanish
and how we can use them to easily build sentences.
Here are the three very important verbs on this slide.
To want, to need and to have.
Going through these in Spanish, we have
Guerrer, which is the verb to want.
Necesitar, which is the verb to need.
And tener, this is the verb to have.
Mastering these conjugations will empower you to start expressing yourself in Spanish
and it will also give you a key understanding of how verbs work in the language,
which we'll build on throughout the rest of the course.
In order to not overwhelm you all in one lesson, we'll first focus on the angle of I.
Then, a little later on, we'll cover the rest of the angles.
This is just a brief introduction to how verbs work in general,
so don't worry if this feels new.
This is just something to keep in mind as we go forward.
Simply watch the videos in the order laid out and everything will make sense.
