Does anyone have any helpful hints with regards to this, either online or otherwise.
I can do the Hablar, hablo, habla, etc.

Thanks

It's not a guide but it's a great site for looking them up

http://www.verbix.com/languages/spanish.shtml

Useful, thanks

That's excellent - thank you - I'll bookmark it

(I've really got to move beyond the present & past!)



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See also:

http://www.123teachme.com/spanish_verb_conjugation

Which past?

Imperfect, perfect, preterit, pluperfect, progressive imperfect, perfect, preterit, pluperfect or what?

Then of course there's the infinitive perfect, the participle perfect, and you could use the immediate imperfect.......

Don't have a heart attack just yet. The most useful piece of advice I can give is to look for the patterns. Learn them and you don't have to learn the way every verb goes, just the bits that don't fit the patterns.

For example the future is the infinitive, with the endings of the present tense of haber on the end. There are only 11 or so irregular verbs in the future, two in the imperfect, and none in the conditional

and so it goes.

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Hiya Bil xx

My advice would be to learn the verb HABER inside out and then use the ando-iendo and ado-ido ending for the verbs ti make up the different tenses

And in most forms of conversation try to use the ing-ando-iendo instead of the "yo como" form. Use the yo como etc form, only for habitual things. It does not work all the time, but it helps to make your self understood, as it does seem easier from an English speaking point of view.

Then the other way will come later when you are more fluent.

If this makes any sence to anyone, I will be flabbergasted.

Good luck

flabbergasto, dont you mean?

This a good link which explains all about HABER to be used as have in English.

http://spanish.about.com/od/verbtens...er_perfect.htm

Cheers

I mean flabbergastado

indeedeee

Hi sweetie.

The simple pasts are the most useful, ie the imperfect, perfect and the preterite.

To simplify, look at the verb to eat.

Imperfect. I used to eat at Joe's. (I did so habitually, but no longer eat there)

Perfect. I have eaten at Joe's. ( this may have been once, or several times, and I may well eat there in the future.)

Preterit. I ate at Joe's. (This refers to a single event in the past.)

The pret and perf can overlap just as you could say 'I ate at Joe's this morning', and it would signify exactly the same as saying 'I have eaten at Joe's this morning.'

What you couldn't say is 'I used to eat there this morning'.

See what I mean?

Progressive tenses are conjugated with estar. the progressive imperfect would be 'estaba comiendo....' I was eating when the bell rang. (Different from I was eating at Joe's lat week which would be the straightforward imperfect.)

Does that help?

Holy S**t, I am confused and I am bloody Spanish..............

Pheww - well that's a relief then


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