¿Qué dices si un desconocido* te pide un dólar? A strangerĢ. You may choose the same response more than one. ¿ Qu é dices? What would you say in the following situations? Draw a line to of the provided answers, or create one of your own. *These verbs also have an irregular yo form. It’s best to learn the meaning and the change simultaneously. When studying the new vocabulary, study the infinitive with the stem-change. ⇨ O to UE ⇨ U to UE: There is only one verb that goes U to UE (jugar: to play)

The last vowel of the stem changes when the verb is conjugated in all forms.

The verb endings are the same as always.

How will you “just know” a certain verb stem-changes? Because you studied and practiced each of them… a lot.ĭormir (o:ue) -to sleep. You just have to know which verbs take a stem-change. Unfortunately, there is no special way to identify them.

When students are initially learning to use these verbs, they wonder if there is some trick to identify them by the way they are spelled, or some other clue that can be found if you know where to look. It is important to remember that our endings are going to continue to work just like they always do, so let’s review present tense endings.

When students first start learning to use Stem-Changers, they focus so much on the change in the stem that they often start to misuse endings. However, there are many verbs in Spanish that see a slight change in the stem when the verb is conjugated, which we often refer to as Stem-Changing Verbs, Stem-Changers, or Boot Verbs. We haven’t talked much about this part of the verb yet because the verbs we have seen thus far keep the original stem. The stem is everything up to the –AR, -ER, or –IR ending. We are already very familiar with present tense verb endings-we know that every verb will end in –AR, -ER, or –IR, and that the endings for each group will change in the same way when the verb is conjugated. In Spanish, infinitives are made up of two parts: The Stem & The Ending.

4.3 stem changing verbs e i que haces