Tiempo presente de verbos regulares terminados en -er e -ir (needs edit)

Estudiante A:
 ¿Comen en restaurantes frecuentemente?
Estudiante B:
 No, siempre cocinamos comemos en casa.
Estudiante C:
 ¿A qué hora parte Julio?
Estudiante D:
 Parte a las ocho.
Estudiante E:
 ¿Dónde comes al mediodía?
Estudiante F:
 Como en la cafetería que está al lado de la biblioteca, ¿y tú?
Estudiante E:
 Casi siempre como en el centro estudiantil con mis amigos.

As you learned, present tense verbs are used to talk about actions that are habitual. You know how to conjugate verbs that end in –ar; now you will learn how to conjugate verbs that end in –er and –ir. For example, comer and partir .

In order to form the present tense, you must first remove the –er or –ir from the infinitive, and then add the following endings, which you see below.

comer – to eat
singular plural
1a yo como nosotros comemos
2a tú comes vosotros coméis
3a él/ella/usted come ellos/ellas/ustedes comen
partir – to leave
singular plural
1a yo parto nosotros partimos
2a tú partes vosotros partís
3a él/ella/usted parte ellos/ellas/ustedes parten

As you can see, for the most part, the endings for –er and –ir verbs are the same, with the exceptions being the nosotros and vosotros forms.

 

 

 

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