There are three basic groups of Spanish verbs, in these articles we will look at the regular AR, ER and IR verbs.. In this part we will concentrate on regular ER and IR verbs in the present tense.

In Part 1,we learned that a verb is a “doing” word that covers everything from an action to an opinion, so sing, drink, eat,, like, dislike, love, kick, fall, smile, hear, write turn, are all examples of verbs. In the English language the verb is not changed by who is doing the action. An example would be;

“I like cheese”, “we like cheese” and “you like cheese”, the verb “like” stays the same. In Spanish the form of the verb is changed by who is doing the action.

In the first part we concentrated on regular verbs ending in the letters a and r. The other two groups of regular verbs are the verbs that end in er and ir.

Verbs Ending In ER

One of the words meaning to repair in Spanish is rehacer, if we want to say “ I repair cars” in Spanish, we drop the e and r from the end of rehacer and add an o, to give “rehaco los coches”(los coches, is literally the cars). There is no need for the Spanish word for I (Yo) at the beginning of the sentence because by adding the er, we have changed the verb to referrer it to me.

If we wanted to say “you repair cars” to one person, we would remove the er and add es. giving us “rehaces los coches”, there is no need to use t