All the grammatic's rules in spanish have an exception. Even this one
The second one is that we have several verbal tenses, which means that for talking in past tense you gotta choose between 10 (yeah.. ten, it's not a typo) different tenses so you can exactly describe how far away in time are you talking about. Then you have 4 tenses for the present, 2 not-conjugated tenses, 4 to describe the future, and 2 for supposing things. Some of them have the only purpouse to order somebody to do something.
All this verbal tenses (22) are grouped in 4 modes: indicative, subjunctive, imperative and non-subject.
If it was not enough, we have 3 ways to conjugate al the verbs: 1st singular person, 1st plural person, 2nd singular person, 2nd plural person, 3th singular person, 3th plural person, and.. the other one i never could learn its name.
Basicaly, everytime time you are going to say a verb yo choose among 22x7 posibilities (like 154 verbal forms).... per verb.
As you do, we have aux verbs: ser, estar and haber (ser/estar = be, haber=have)
Don't get scared. It's not that hard when you start practicing
Today's lesson: Infinitivo, no personal
This is the raw form of all verbs. The infinitive form. All the verbs when not conjugated end in -ar, -er, -ir, like: amar, comer, morir (to love, to eat, to die).
So, everytime you see a word with any of this subfix you will know it's a verb in it's invinitive form even though you don't know what the world means.
Here's the trick: not ALL the words with this ending are verbs,but mostly of them. Which ones are not verbs? well, pinar (group of pines), menester (a job), and.... some other weird exception. I repeat: 99% of the times it will be a verb.
Pay attention to the endings. This would tell you later how to conjugate the verb.
The verbs in this mode are use just in addition to another CONJUGATED verd. They don't exist per se to discribe any action that was, is ot will be performed.
Too much info for today. Lemme know if you need some other examples, or if there is anything i should explain a little bit more. The rest, it's just vocabulary :)
Not all of these are verbs:
Casar, lavar, mecer, tener, dolar, manar, sanar, calamar, osar, mar, elegir, emir, sentir, soñar, dudar, lemur, cantar, blandir, candor, mercader, elixir, purgar.
You made me think a lot for that list!
