QUE ES UN INFINITIVO? WHAT IS AN INFINITIVE? SPANISH PRESENT TENSE

2. REGULAR VERBS

3. What is a verb?
• A doing word
• An action

4. A verb is a DOING word
Some examples
• Running
• Dancing
• Fighting
• Laughing

5. Group the following verbs:
seeing eat
ate see
eating eaten saw
sees seen
eats
These are
called
INFINITIVE
verbs To eat
To see

6. What is an INFINITIVE
verb?
• The dictionary version
• The ‘title’ of the verb
• It means ‘TO DO’ something.

7. Some examples:
These are the Spanish INFINITIVES as found in the
dictionary:
To scream gritar To fight pelear
To drink beber To hear oir
To cry llorar To kiss besar
To suffer sufrir To open abrir
To sleep dormir To write escribir
To bite morder To punish castigar

8. How to use infinitives:
Me gustaría gritar ¿Quieres pelear
Voy a beber Tengo que oir
Suelo llorar Me encanta besar
Me gusta sufrir Después de abrir
No puedo dormir escribir
Odio
Prefiero morder Antes de castigar

9. -ar Verbs -er Verbs -ir Verbs
escribir
escuchar gritar comer escuchar
abrir sufrir
vivir
practicar morder
practicar besar
gritar beber sufrir
morder comer
ver escribir
abrir
besar ver
vivir beber
Every Spanish Infinitive belongs to one of
these groups!

10. Let’s Conjugate!!
-ar Verbs -er Verbs -ir Verbs
Remove these endings from the infinitives…
…and put on NEW endings….
…which tell us WHO is doing the action…
…and also WHEN the action takes place!
…erm, pardon?? Say that again..

11. I said..Let’s Conjugate!!
-ar Verbs -er Verbs -ir Verbs
Remove these endings from the infinitives…
…and put on NEW ones….
…which tell us WHO is doing the action…
…and also WHEN the action takes place!
Well…go on…show me!!

12. Watch very carefully..!!!
practicar comer vivir
to practise to eat to live
I practic ar
o comer
o ir
viv o
You (sing.) practicas
ar comes
er viv es
ir
He / She / It practic ar
a com e
er viv e
ir
comer
emos viv ir
imos
We practicamos
ar
com eis
er viv ir
ís
You (plural) practic ar
ais
ir
viv en
They practic ar
an com en
er

13. Watch very carefully..!!!
practicar comer vivir
to practise to eat to live
I practic ar
o comer
o ir
viv o
You (sing.) practicas
ar comes
er viv es
ir
He / She / It practic ar
a com e
er viv e
ir
comer
emos viv ir
imos
We practicamos
ar
com eis
er viv ir
ís
You (plural) practic ar
ais
ir
viv en
They practic ar
an com en
er

14. Ready for more…??!!!
-ar -er -ir
visit ar
o comer
o o
viv ir
to visit
I to eat
I to live
I
visit ar
é comer
í í
viv ir
to visit ed
I to ate
I eat to lived
I
visit ar
aré comereré iré
viv ir
I will visit
to I will eat
to to
I will live

15. To sum up..
• Verbs are …….. words
• Infinitive verbs are found in the ……..
• Infinitive verbs mean ‘……….’ something.
• All Spanish infinitives end in the letter….
• There are 3 groups of Spanish
verbs: ......., ……, and ……. types.
• Infinitive endings are replaced to tell us
…..….. does the action and ………… the
action is done.