Overview of Spanish Verb Tenses, Conjugations, and Uses

This video provides and extensive overview of the Spanish verb system. It covers the forms and uses of 15 verb verb tenses, providing lots of examples in Spanish and English.

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[atulmadhugiri1]

Really Great. Could you attach the PowerPoint so we can print and review slides?

[languagenow]

@atulmadhugiri1 go the slideshare and search by the same title as the video.

[cuchinigno]

1 of the most useful lessons i've ever seen! thanks a lot!!!

[languagenow]

@cuchinigno Thanks, glad you found it helpful!

[9jsik9]

@languagenow

I was just wondering about something i heard recently used by a spaniard which was.

Estuviste llorando? When would you use that tense im not quite sure

and sometimes i get the preterite confused with the imperfect when using ser for example:

Fui yo and era yo, If you could help me thank you

[languagenow]

@9jsik9 Good question, and a tough one to answer... the person was using the preterite form of estar, estuviste, with the progressive form, llorando, meaning, were you crying? The preterite usage implies that the crying was a completed event, in and of itself... Tough to explain, but look for my video on the preterite and imperfect.

[cosmetica529]

This was so awesome - it really put it all together for me. You put in a lot of effort and time into these videos and I definitely appreciate it. Your students are very lucky. I think you could write an amazing Spanish grammar book because you know how to make it clear for your students. I put this in my favorites and will refer to it often - thanks :)

[jonathanelt]

Wow, as a Spanish learner of just under a year, I have finally understood all of the tense usages which have up until this point seemed daunting and confusing! Thank you so much! Really great clear and informative lesson!

[PablitoSuHermanito]

Professor Jason,

In your example of using the preterito you give this example:

Los niños no abrieron la ventana.

I remain confused how something that "didn't happen" can ever be thought to have "happened and completed"... Of course, the imperfect would suggest the action is still happening (which seems even MORE odd). Can you speak a little bit on the subject of negated sentences and it's relationship to how to understand what tense is to be used?

[VictimOfBoredom]

@VictimOfBoredom Never mind, I believe the one mistake was that it should have been "Habrá hablado" for the future perfect. Sorry to bother you. :)

[VictimOfBoredom]

Professor Jason,

I really love your verb chart that you made for this video, and I decided it would be a nifty idea to transpose it into Excel to use as a template for exploring the conjugations of different verbs.

I've fleshed out the Ud. forms as well, but I'm not sure if I did them all correctly. Could you kindly check whether I conjugated all the Ud. tenses and moods for "hablar" correctly?:

tinyurl (dot) com/3mzap2n

Thank you so much!

[jerez228]

From an American living in Spain..this is a very good lesson. The terms seemed so confusing...thanks very much!!!

[yoyo10231995]

Molto grazie, professore.

Wait, wrong language.