Los días de colegio: 1st person singular present tense with 'g', e.g. 'pongo'
I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
Los días de colegio: 1st person singular present tense with 'g', e.g. 'pongo'
I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
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Key learning points
- [u] and [i] are weak vowels and they merge with other vowels making a single syllable.
- 'Contigo' is a pronoun and it means 'with you'.
- Some verbs have an irregular stem and add a -g- in 1st person singular, present tense: pongo, vengo, hago, digo - digo.
Keywords
Present tense - describes habitual events in the present: 'I do'
Irregular verb - a verb that does not follow the regular rules
Stem - part of the verb that appears in all forms
Common misconception
Verbs like poner, venir and hacer follow the rules of regular -er/-ir verbs in the present tense.
Verbs like poner, venir and hacer are irregular and add -g- in the 1st person singular present (e.g. pongo, vengo, hago, and decir - digo).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
to fall, falling
hot
computer
headscarf
the others
on top of
to come, coming
to go out, going out
to put, putting
to have, having
to say, saying
to hear, hearing
I
you (singular)
she, he, it
Exit quiz
6 Questions
comfortable
exciting
breaktime
room, hall
afternoon, evening
I say