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Unfinished Assignment Vocabulary Pulldown for Lesson 16
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Lesson Objectives:

In this lesson, we will learn how to conjugate the other two types of verbs, -ER and -IR verbs. We will finish by learning a few verbs that we can practice the conjugation rules on.

Vocabulary:

correr - to run
subir - to go up or to climb
aprender - to learn
comer - to eat
comprender - to understand
creer - to believe
leer - to read
abrir - to open
decidir - to decide
describir - to describe
escribir - to write
recibir - to receive
vivir - to live
beber - to drink



Now we will look at the -er verb endings

For yo, again the ending is 'o'
For tú, it's 'es'
For Él, ella, o usted - it's 'e'
For Nosotros o nosotras - it's 'emos'
For Ellos, ellas, o ustedes - it's 'en'

So, we'll quickly run through the conjugations of the verb comer, which means "to eat"

First, we take off the -er to get the stem.

So, yo C-O-M, appropriate ending, como
Tú, C-O-M, comes
Él, ella o usted come
Nosotros comemos
Ellos, ellas o ustedes comen


Let's look at the -ir verb endings

The endings for the -ir verbs are identical to those for the -er verbs, with the exception of nosotros.

So we'll write out the endings here quickly.
Yo - o
Tú - es
Él, ella o usted - e
Nosotros o nosotras - imos (note that for the -er verbs, it was emos)
Ellos, ellas, o ustedes - en

Let's conjugate the verb 'subir', which means 'to climb' or 'to go up'

So we take off the -ir and we add on the appropriate endings.

Yo subo
Tú subes
Él, ella o usted sube
Nosotros subimos
Ellos, ellas o ustedes suben

As you can see, all we did was to take the appropriate endings from the list above and add them on to the verb's stem.