This document explains how to conjugate regular Spanish verbs ending in -ar, -er, and -ir. It discusses removing the infinitive ending and adding the appropriate ending based on the subject performing the action. It encourages the reader to continually practice conjugating verbs and not get discouraged, as with time and practice it will become easier to conjugate verbs without conscious effort.

1. El Pretérito
Explicando lo que pasó

2. The Endings For Regular Verbs
-AR verb endings -ER/-IR verb endings
-é -amos -í -imos
-aste -iste
-ó -aron -ió -ieron

3. The Infinitive
• When you learn a verb, you typically learn its
infinitive form. For example: HABLAR,
COMER, or ESCRIBIR
• Remember that all verbs are made of up two
parts: the stem and the ending.
Habl ar

4. Conjugating the verb HABLAR
• Step 1
é amos – Remove the ending
aste –Hablar
• Step 2
ó aron – Add the ending that
matches the doer of the
action.

5. Process Summary
• Select the verb that means what you want to
communicate.
• Remove the –ar, -er, or –ir.
• Add the ending that matches who it was that
did the action.

6. You can do this
• Remember that all things are difficult before
they become easy.
• If you continually work at conjugating the
verbs, one night you will go to sleep and when
you wake up you will conjugate without
having to think.

7. You really can do it
• Give your brain time to make
sense of it all.
• In the meantime, keep
conjugating.