¡Hola! In this video lesson we’re going to be talking (finally!) about regular -IR verbs in the present tense. We just say “regular” because all you have to worry about changing on these are the endings. 😉
It’s fairly simple. You also might notice it’s almost exactly like regular -ER verbs when you change them.
Leave any questions, comments or suggestions below this video. 🙂
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in the sentence “Guillermo le escribe mucho a su novia”, Is the word Le a direct or indirect object?
@Dennis
“Le” is an indirect object pronoun. Generally, “le” is indirect, and “lo” and “la” are direct object pronouns. Of course, each of those has a plural form as well–les, los, and las. HTH
Min
In the sentance “El maestro descubre que los estudiantes hacen trampa”
Why is ‘que’ used as that? When is ese/esa used? Would it be appropriate to use ese/esa?
Why is “la gente” (the people) not “el gente”? In a previous video you told us that if there were 25,000 women and 1 man that we would use the masculine form. It doesn’t seem reason to assume that the people are all women with no men. In another comment … someone suggested that words ending in l, o, n, e, r, s would be masculine and words ending in ad, ion or a would be feminine. Again, gente ends in e, but is not masculine? I would question that words ending in e, r, s would necessarily be masuline. Most obivious examples would be la mujer or las mujeres.
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Steven Tyler,
Thank you so much for your question! The rules are frustrating because they’re always broken in languages. 🙂 Rules are more of tendencies explaining how things work. Still though… in this case, “la gente” is simply a feminine word for a mixed group of people. So if you wanted to say “attractive people” (even though men are included) the word for attractive would modify the gender of the word “gente”. So it would be “la gente atractiva”. Silly right? Another example is the “person” is always feminine in Spanish – “una persona” regardless of if you’re talking about a male or female.
I hope this doesn’t discourage you too much! 🙂
-Sr. J
Instead of using “a menudo” could the phrase “con frecuencia” also be used interchangeably?
sometimes hard to read the answers when the graphics overlay the screen. If go to the full screen can’t see the vocab lists. The title 01054 Spanish Lesson stays at the top and is in the way of the answers.