Spanish for children ch 1

To cut, I cut, I cut, I will cut

• cortar

• corto

• corté

• cortaré

What do you call changing the ending of a verb to show it is doing the action?

• conjugating

• inflecting

• modifying

• declining

Form a present participle (-ing words) by: Chop off last two letters for stem, Add -ando for -ar verbs, Add -iendo for -ir verbs.

• All of these

• Only for -ar verbs

• Only for -ir verbs

• Chop off last letter for stem

el cuaderno

• notebook

• folder

• pen

• pencil

what 3 endings do infinitives have?

• ar, er, ir

• ar, or, ir

• ar, er, ur

• ar, er, ar

Future tense verb endings

• é ás á emos éis án

• é as a amos áis an

• é as a emos éis an

• é as a emos áis an

To speak, I speak, I spoke, I will speak

• hablar

• hablo

• hablé

• hablaré

This part of speech names a person, place, or thing.

• verb

• adjective

• noun

• adverb

We, you all second person informal, they masculine/feminine plural you all third person formal

• nosotros, vosotros, ellos, ellas, ustedes

• nosotros, ustedes, ellos, vosotras, ellas

• vosotros, nosotros, ellas, ellos, ustedes

• vosotros, ellos, ustedes, nosotros, ellas

Near past tense is formed by adding

• acabar + de + infinitive

• haber + participio

• ir + a + infinitive

• estar + gerundio