{"id":281,"date":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/log.cudoo.com\/2018\/03\/11\/6-very-useful-spanish-verbs-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:21:31","slug":"6-very-useful-spanish-verbs-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/6-very-useful-spanish-verbs-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Very Useful Spanish Verbs You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verbs, verbs, verbs\u2026-ar, -er, -ir, pret\u00e9rito imperfecto, pret\u00e9rito indefinido, futuro simple or future imperfecto, pret\u00e9rito perfecto\u2026if you are already starting to sweat, then serve up the gazpacho and cool it down a notch as we take a look at some useful Spanish verbs. <!--more--> Thankfully, like most things in life, the 80\/20 rule works for Spanish grammar too. Being able to conjugate the top 6 verbs any which way is a good route to confidence.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Ser <\/strong>To be (permanent qualities)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>When do I use it?<\/strong> Time, date, nationality, occupation\/profession, physical description of people and places, event locations, occupation\/profession.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Estar <\/strong>To be *(temporary qualities)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>When do I use it?<\/strong> Feelings, describing food, what you\u2019re doing or what\u2019s actively happening (continuous tense), location of buildings<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Hacer <\/strong>To make or to do<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>When do I use it?<\/strong> In Spanish, there\u2019s no difference between the activities we do and the things we make, both activities are described with the verb hacer. He does his homework: El hace sus deberes She makes dinner: Ella hace la cena<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Tener <\/strong>To have<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>When do I use it?<\/strong> Possession, *age, phrasal verb Tener Que + Infinitivo (non-conjugated verb) *Age: In Spanish, you possess age e.g. Tengo 20 a\u00f1os = I have 20 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spanishdict.com\/answers\/120531\/how-do-you-say-how-old-you-are-in-spanish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NEVER <\/strong><\/a>use ser or estar with age, as in <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">soy 20 <\/span>or <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">estoy 20<\/span>.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong>Ir <\/strong>To go The verb ir is almost exclusively used with the preposition a<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>When to use:<\/strong> To go to a location, phrasal verb Ir a + Infinitivo (non-conjugated verb) Do I really need to know another language? Maybe not, but here are <a href=\"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/10-benefits-of-learning-language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 very good reasons why you should!<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verbs, verbs, verbs\u2026-ar, -er, -ir, pret\u00e9rito imperfecto, pret\u00e9rito indefinido, futuro simple or future imperfecto, pret\u00e9rito perfecto\u2026if you are already starting to sweat, then serve up the gazpacho and cool it down a notch as we take a look at some useful Spanish verbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[241,320,321,322],"yst_prominent_words":[304,1001,3402,318,3401,303,301,298,307,317,300,314,302,308,310,319,306,255,299,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}