spanish help?

Question

What does the term "verb stem" mean?

What does the term"infinitive" mean?

What is a conjugation?

Answer 1

A verb stem (i think) is an old word that words today come from, such as the latin word for dog is canis, which is where we get the word canine.
Conjugating a word is changing it to fit the circumstance you are using it in. for example, you don't say "I eats fruit." but "I eat fruit." and you don't say "He eat fruit", you say, "He eats fruit. "i eat" in spanish is "como", while "he eats" is "come". So "I eat fruit." would be "Yo como las frutas."
An infinitive is the complete verb, before it has been conjugated. There is no spanish word for just "eat", it is "to eat" (comer) and there is no "draw" only "to draw" (dibujar) when you conjugate a word, you drop the ar, er, or ir ending, and add anoter ending to fit. if you want to know what the endings are and more about which endings to use, and other stuff, feel free to e-mail me.

Answer 2

The verb stem is the root source of all the different conjugations. For example, the English verb, be, is the root of am, are, is, being, was, have been, has been, having been, will be, etc.

The infinitive is the purest form of the verb, and is always preceded by the word, "to"; i.e., to be, to go, to eat, to sleep, to walk, etc.

Conjugation is putting different endings on the verbs to indicate present, past or future forms of the verbs. Going back to the verb, to be: Present tense: I am, you are, he is, we are, they are.
Past tense: I was, you were, he was, we were, they were
Future tense: I will be, you will be, he will be, we will be, they will be. Then there are the more advanced tenses such as present participle, past participle, future perfect, preterite, etc.

These parts of speech are relative to the English language, but Spanish verbs are conjugated, have infinitives as well. Just translate these examples into Spanish.

Answer 3

Take the verb "hablar".

"hablar" is the infinitive. It is the verb in its un-conjugated form.

"-ar" is the verb stem. it determines how you will conjugate the verb.

conjugations are the different endings that you put on the verb once you remove the stem. For the present tense of hablar, the endings are:

yo form- o
tu form- as
el, ella, usted form- a
nosotros form- amos
vosotros form- ais
ellos, ellas, ustedes form- an

Answer 4

verb stem is changing the ir,er,ar endings to o,as,a,amos,ais,an and etc, changing verb tense


conjugation is changing english-spanish or spanish-english like hablar conjugated is to talk


infinitive is like an infinitive verb, not conjugated