How To Reduce Memorizing Verbs To Learn Spanish

It amazes me how much we learn about our own language when we learn a foreign tongue.  I fancied myself a bit of an English Language scholar prior to learning Spanish.  I quickly found out how little I knew about my own language.

Do you know what an infinitive verb is?  Check your response.  You’ll likely either fall into the “I never was much at English” group and immediately respond with a “no idea”.  Or you’ll join the larger of the 2 groups and you find yourself looking around your immediate vicinity for that distant faded mental English 101 classroom image that you know you’ve got stored in there and are hoping will pop up with the answer. “Yes I know what an infinitive verb is but… but… just a second….” This stuff challenges us.

For our purposes, an infinitive verb is an action word that is not assigned to a person or time.  Hence, it is infinite.  An infinitive verb is usually preceded by the particle “to” ie. to talk, to eat, to come etc…

All infinitive verbs end in ar, er or ir.  Examples: