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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn the verb,

Ablar, which is what we call a regular verb.

We've now learned 15 verbs on this podcast, and as we've pointed out, there were some patterns

that were pretty predictable from verb to verb.

For example, all third-person plural conjugations end with N, such as estaban and kieran.

But there have also been a lot of irregularities.

For example, in the present tense, sometimes the I form ends with G-O, as in Ago and Tengo,

and sometimes with O-Y, as in soy and boy. And the predorate for he or she

follows all kinds of different patterns from Fue to Iso to Dios. Well, the good news is that

most of that hard work is behind us. Going forward,

most of the verbs that we learn will be what we call regular verbs, which means they'll follow

one of three extremely predictable patterns or templates for how all the different tenses are

conjugated.

The most common regular forms are verbs whose infinitives end with A.R.

We've already learned a couple of verbs that end with A.R, namely,

estar and daar. But these verbs don't fit the normal A-R pattern.

But the normal A-R pattern is exemplified by today's verb,

Ablar, which means to talk or to speak.

The infinitive of this verb is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R.

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