Spanish speeking pplz plz help me. I dont get why the ending of some verbs change?

Question

there are four sentences i dont understand. for u spanish speaking pplz this should b ezy for u. It is hard for me though. I dont understand why some verbs take the ustedes-en or the usted-e form

Beatriz leer un libro.
Why does the verb change into lee?

Los muchachos leer el diccionario
Why does the verb change into leen?

Horacio escribir un poema
Why does the verb change into escribe?

Sus padres escribir poesia
Why does the verb change into escriben?

kayla u got my vote u help me alot :)
but wut bout oir??

Answer 1

In English the same thing happens:

I bring a book
He bringS a book.

See the diff? Now Spanish just does the changing for ever person int he verb.
You do know that there are 1st, 2nd and 3rd person Singular, and then 1st, 2nd and 3rd person Plural??

I
you
he,she,it

we
you
they.

Right?

So the verb leer has to be lee for the girl Beatrice (she is 3rd pers singular)
"Los muchachos" is 3rd person plural, so that sentence needs leen.

The word changes each time the person changes. Ha! I do not mean that Beatric and Juan and Susi are the different persons. I mean the place in the order of the verb stuff.

Answer 2

In many languages of the Indo_European family (which includes English, French Spanish, Russian...) the ending of verbs changes with tense and with the 'person' of the subject. English has the change with tense: to walk, I walk, I walked. Otherwise, English uses lots of auxilaries to convey other tenses: I have walked, I will walk, I could walk, Would that I walk... Also, in English, the only 'person' ending comes with the third person of the singular (with the addition of an s). I walk, he walks. In the old days, when the second person of the singular was still used, it too could have a different ending. The only common verb that is still conjugated is 'to be': I am thou art he is we are you are they are Other languages use the verb endings to do the same job. In other languages, verbs are conjugated along a pattern inherited from ancient Latin and Greek. In many languages, the endings are so clear that the pronoun is often omitted (latin, spanish, russian); in French, the endings are less clearly different, so the pronoun is usually kept. Another twist is the 'polite' person. In English, everybody gets the plural 'you' In French, children and very close friends get the 'tu' (2nd person singular) while everybody else gets the polite 'vous' (2nd person plural). In Italian, if you want to be polite, you'll use the third person singular (How is he today?) In Spanish, there are two polite versions, one singular (Usted) and one plural (Ustedes), depending on how many persons you are being polite to. The pronouns are considered 2nd person pronouns, but they take the form of the verb associated with the third person (a mix of French and Italian rules of politeness, maybe?) Otherwise, you will find that Spanish is the most logically constructed language of the Romance languages. There are very few exceptions. Once you understand a rule, that rule will apply in almost all cases.

Answer 3

OK, I am in my third year of Spanish so don't mistake me for being Hispanic. I am Chinese in fact.

Usted- This form means You(polite). This is typically used to older people that speaks Spanish. It shows a sign of respect. You should always ask older people (IE teachers,parents, and other adults way older than you) using this form.

Ustedes- This means You all.It is also a polite word to refer to the older people.

MAIN DIFFERENCE in these two words- Usted is used to refer to 1 person, where as Ustedes is used to refer a group more than 1.

OK for the verb forms-...i will conjugate it for you...

Yo- leo/escribo
Tu- lees/escribes
El, Ella, Usted- Lee/escribe
Nosotros- leemos/escribemos
Ellos, Ellas, Ustedes- leen/escriben

This is no different from English grammar (IE He is/They are). Leer and Escribir are root words. The only part that changes is the -er and -ir. These are the rules of Spanish. Therefore, le and escrib are paired up with the right endings of what is being refered to.

Beatriz is a singular noun. It is only one person, so in English the name Beatriz is refered to as a she, which is ella in Spanish. The ending of the e/ella/ustedes form is and e...so when le+e that would make it LEE.
Los muchachos is a group of guys. The noun is plural, so it has to be paired up with the plural noun form, which would happen to be leen. -en is the ending for the ellos/ellas/ustedes form and leer is the verb, so leen is the correct word form.

Horacio is a single noun. It needs a single verb. Escribir is the verb,so the conjugated form of el/ella/usted form is escribe.
Sus padres means His/her parents. It is plural, so the verb has to be plural. The plural form of escribir is escriben.

HERE ARE ENDINGS OF VERBS- this is the system used to conjugate REGULAR PRESENT TENSE verbs.(Yes, there are verb forms...you will learn those as you go on to the next level)

AR
yo(I) -o
tu(you) -as
El/ella/usted(he,she -a
Nosotros(we) -amos
Ellos(as)/Uds -an

ER
yo- o
tu- es
el- e
Nosotros -emos
Ellos -en

IR
yo- o
tu- es
el- e
Nos- imos
ellos- en

*NOTE* Uds and Ud are short hand for ustedes and usted.

Answer 4

For instance, Beatriz is singular, so you use the he/she ending (e) which makes it Beatriz lee un libro.

Or, Los Muchachos is plural, and it's like your looking at the men from a distance, so think of the guys as "them". And the word for them is "ellos", so you use the "en" ending. Or, Los Muchachos leen.

Horacio is singular (he), so you use the e ending again. Horacio escribe un poema.

Sus padres (Your parents) are plural, so you use the "them" or ellos ending, which is "en". Sus padres escriben poesia.

I really hope that made sense, if not, I'm sorry.

Answer 5

The verb ending tells you who is performing the action.
Leer is the infinitive. Lee tells you that third person singlur (in this case Beatriz) is doing the reading.

Again, los muchachos leer -- leer tells you that you are talking about something that is being done by more than one person.

The infinitive (escribir = to write) changees to escribe to indicate that a single person is doing the writing.

Sus padres escriben means the writing is being done by more than one person, in this case, your parents. Sus padres means mother and father in the plural.

We don't have such fine distinctions in English, but if you can wrap your mind around the different declensions -- that there is a different declension for 'I' 'You (sing) 'He/She/It' Us, You (pl) and 'They' you will have the verb problem beat.

Good luck!

Answer 6

Because the verb must agree with the subject (everyone's mantra here) each type of subject has a different ending.

For "ER" verbs, the endings are

yo = -o
tú = -es
él = -e
ella = -e
usted = -e

nosotros = -emos

I am not sure what vosotros is, my teacher does not make us do this one.

ellos = -en
ellas = -en
ustedes = -en

This is based off of person (first, second or third) and whether it is plural or singular.

Answer 7

well theres a little thing called conjugation
there r 6 forms
yo, tu , el-ella-ellas,vosotros,nosotros,ellos-ellan,
this rule goes for all verbs in spanish each one has to have a diffrent ending so if it were jugar(which means play)it would be jugo for yo and jugan for tu i cant remember the rest

Answer 8

the verb must agree with the subject

Answer 9

in Spanish, you have to congigate.. it's annoying, the verb must agree with the subject....

Answer 10

leer is to read

lee is reading

leen is plural

escribe is present

escriben is also plural