What’s on the Spanish Present Tense poster
A 6-row table: Person · hablar · comer / vivir.
Drop the -ar, -er or -ir from the infinitive and add the ending for the person.
- yo — hablo — como / vivo
- tú — hablas — comes / vives
- él, ella, usted — habla — come / vive
- nosotros — hablamos — comemos / vivimos
- vosotros — habláis — coméis / vivís
- ellos, ustedes — hablan — comen / viven
-er and -ir differ only in the nosotros and vosotros rows. Everywhere else they are identical.
Questions about the Spanish Present Tense poster
- What’s on the Spanish Present Tense poster?
- A 6-row table: Person · hablar · comer / vivir. Drop the -ar, -er or -ir from the infinitive and add the ending for the person. yo — hablo — como / vivo; tú — hablas — comes / vives; él, ella, usted — habla — come / vive; nosotros — hablamos — comemos / vivimos; vosotros — habláis — coméis / vivís; ellos, ustedes — hablan — comen / viven. -er and -ir differ only in the nosotros and vosotros rows. Everywhere else they are identical.
- Who is the Spanish Present Tense poster for?
- Spanish Present Tense belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning spanish can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Spanish Present Tense poster?
- Learn the endings, not the words. Every regular verb in the language follows one of these three rows. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Spanish Present Tense belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Spanish Present Tense?
- Spanish Accents, Adjective Agreement and Commands sit alongside Spanish Present Tense in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Spanish AccentsAdjective AgreementCommands
- Is the Spanish Present Tense poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Spanish Present Tense downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Spanish Present Tense poster print at?
- Spanish Present Tense is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Spanish Present Tense loses nothing.Printing guide
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