Funny Spanish Verb Conjugations
Spanish has so many persons, tenses, and moods there are not enough verb conjugations to go around. Some conjugations have to do double duty.
Many conjugations are also words in other parts of speech, such as vino, which is a verb conjugation and also "wine." The conjugation meaning is never shown in a Spanish-English dictionary.
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Sunday, November 9, 2014
To see or not to see
Ver, "to see," and vestir, "to dress," have two conjugations in common, viste and visto. Jokes later.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Venir and vengar
Venir means "to come" and vengar means "to avenge." The word vengamos is a conjugation of both verbs, and in vengar it is a present-tense conjugation and a past-tense one, so ¡Vengamos! ¡Vengamos! ¡Vengamos! means "We avenge! Let us come! We avenged!"
Confuse a child or a dog
The command ¡Ve! means "Go!" (from ir) and "See!" (from ver). ¡Vete! is "Leave!" and "See yourself!"
Sumir and sumar
Sumar is "to add" and sumir is "to plunge." Sumamos means "we add" and "Let's plunge!" And sumo means "I add" and "I plunge."
Salir and salar
Salar is to add salt, in cooking or for preservation. ¡No sales temprano! means "You don't leave early!" and "Don't put salt in the cooking early!"
Thursday, November 6, 2014
To be or not to be
¡Sé español! can mean "I know Spanish!" or be a command to a child or a dog, "Be Spanish!"
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Raer and rayar
Raer means "to scrape off" and rayar means something like "to draw lines." Raer is irregular and has ys in some conjugations, producing conjugations identical to some of those of rayar. "Rayamos. Entonces, rayamos" means "We draw lines. Then, let's scrape off!"
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