How can I teach myself Spanish grammar?
How to Learn Spanish Grammar in 10 Simple Steps
- Spend the first three months perfecting the present tense.
- Practice the past and future tenses in private conversation classes.
- Keep a notebook purely for noting down the gender of nouns.
- Write in Spanish every day.
- Take a specific course in the use of the subjunctive.
What are the 6 forms of estar?
Lesson Summary To describe how you feel or where you are, you use the present indicative forms of estar – estoy, estás, está, estamos, estáis, están.
How do you use estaba?
Estaba is used when you want to talk about a context that is continuous in time, a determinant of the situation that you are talking about, determining ‘where you were”, or what you were doing. Examples: Yo estaba solo ayer en el examen: I was alone yesterday during the test.
Why is Spanish grammar so hard?
As you may have seen, Spanish has many more grammatical difficulties than most other languages. While other languages lack gender in nouns or their irregular verbs have similarities with the infinitive, Spanish has different laws that make it difficult to learn even for native speakers.
What form is estaba?
The imperfect continuous tense
imperfect tense of estar | |
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(yo) | estaba |
(tú) | estabas |
(él/ella/usted) | estaba |
(nosotros) | estábamos |
What conjugation is estaba?
Imperfect tense conjugation
Conjugation | Translation |
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yo estaba | I used to be |
tú estabas | You (informal) used to be |
él/ella/ello/uno estaba | He/she/one used to be |
usted estaba | You (formal) used to be |
Do I use era or estaba?
One general suggestion would be to use ser to CID – Classify, Define and Identify, estar for situations and states in time and space. you would use era. then you would use estaba.
What are the 4 ways to use the verb estar?
The Main Uses of Estar
- To indicate a state or condition, often one resulting from a change:
- To indicate location:
- Preceding de to form various idioms of condition or state:
- With a present participle to form a progressive tense:
- To indicate suitability:
Is Spanish grammar harder than French?
Learning Spanish or French Later on, Spanish grammar becomes more complicated, and some aspects are certainly more difficult than French. Keep in mind that each language learned tends to be progressively easier than the previous one, so if you learn, for example, French first and then Spanish, Spanish will seem easier.