When learning Spanish, understanding verbs is one of the hardest spots that people may come across. Spanish verbs differ from English verbs in a variety of ways. For instance, many verbs in Spanish express distinctions in meanings, and includes tenses such as the subjunctive, which do not exist in other languages including English. Above all, Spanish verbs convey information regarding when the action took place, and who performed that action in a single word. For example, in English, the subject is always specified before the verb, like “I write”; while in Spanish, the single word “Escribo (write)” contains all the information regarding the subject.
The infinitive of a verb in English is formed by adding the word “to”, like in “to do”, “to be” etc. The infinitive of a verb in Spanish, on the other hand, is indicated by -AR, -ER, and -IR, such as in “Estudiar (to study)”, “Escriber (to write)”, and “Comer (to eat)”. Each type of Spanish verbs has a different group of endings – Yo; T