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Dec 05, 2012 - 04:27 PM
I meant to say sold instead of bought.
Dec 09, 2012 - 06:14 AM
Hmm, I too have had this concern (currently working through Mandarin level 1). There are a lot of things in it that I feel I don't really need to know. I'm currently in China studying tai chi, I want to learn mandarin so I can have conversations with the people in the school, not so I can get about places. Restaurants and taxis aren't really needed.
I spent last year living in Spain and haven't heard the word mosquitero before, and don't know what estacionamientos are, so you certainly have a point about it not being relevant for real life day to day conversation. Spanish verbs and tenses are extremely important, you're right, and although they were incredibly daunting when I first started learning Spanish, I didn't and don't find them boring at all.
To give you some of the ones you've mentioned, keeping it as simple as possible as there are several different conjugations for each tense:
Querer (to want)
Past: Quise
Future: Querré
Tener (to have)
Past: Tuve
Future: Tendré
Decir (to say)
Past: Dije
Future: Diré
All three are irregular verbs in each of these conjugations, here's a quick look at some regular verbs:
Hablar (to speak)
Hablé
Hablaré
Comer (to eat)
Comí
Comeré
Vivir (to live)
Viví
Viviré
As you will notice the future tense adds an e to the end and shifts the stress to that syllable, in the past tense the A in -ar verbs turns to an é and the E and I in -er -ir verbs turns to an í.
For an full list of verb conjugations you can search for spanish verb conjugators on a search engine of your choice, I must warn you that doing this will open your eyes to the incredible number of conjugations each verb has, but despite seeming impossible initially I can assure you it isn't as hard as it seems!
Hope you haven't given up hope with Spanish as a result of this, it is a rich and rewarding journey!
Hasta luego!
I spent last year living in Spain and haven't heard the word mosquitero before, and don't know what estacionamientos are, so you certainly have a point about it not being relevant for real life day to day conversation. Spanish verbs and tenses are extremely important, you're right, and although they were incredibly daunting when I first started learning Spanish, I didn't and don't find them boring at all.
To give you some of the ones you've mentioned, keeping it as simple as possible as there are several different conjugations for each tense:
Querer (to want)
Past: Quise
Future: Querré
Tener (to have)
Past: Tuve
Future: Tendré
Decir (to say)
Past: Dije
Future: Diré
All three are irregular verbs in each of these conjugations, here's a quick look at some regular verbs:
Hablar (to speak)
Hablé
Hablaré
Comer (to eat)
Comí
Comeré
Vivir (to live)
Viví
Viviré
As you will notice the future tense adds an e to the end and shifts the stress to that syllable, in the past tense the A in -ar verbs turns to an é and the E and I in -er -ir verbs turns to an í.
For an full list of verb conjugations you can search for spanish verb conjugators on a search engine of your choice, I must warn you that doing this will open your eyes to the incredible number of conjugations each verb has, but despite seeming impossible initially I can assure you it isn't as hard as it seems!
Hope you haven't given up hope with Spanish as a result of this, it is a rich and rewarding journey!
Hasta luego!