Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 65 and in this lesson we're going to

continue to look at the perfect tense and we'll also be talking about the little word

yeah, yeah is a tricky word to use sometimes it generally means already but there are some

other idiomatic ways that yeah is used in Spanish and you'll hear a couple of them in

this lesson. Well, no, just that.

So to begin with Cara, you remember last week that we were looking at the formation of the

perfect tense. It was made up of two things really. One was a part of the verb Aver and

the other, can you remember what the other was?

A past participle?

Exactly. Now, just when we're talking about past participles, I've had an email from

someone saying, why aren't you saying participle? Well, the fact is that in the UK we say participle

and I believe in America you say participle. It's the same thing, doesn't really matter

which way you pronounce it. So we were talking about the past participle and let's just talk

about the past participle of an regular A-R verb. If we take cantar, what would be the past

participle of cantar? Cantado. Cantado, that A-D-O ending. Cantado. Cantado. And let's take

another example, bailar, the past participle of bailar.

Bailado? Bailado, exactly. So we've got A-D-O, the ending for A-R verbs. And the ending

for E-R and I-R verbs isn't A-D-O, but. I-D-O, I-D-O. I-D-O, exactly. And that's the

same for both E-R and I-R verbs. So let's take an E-R verb bebear to drink. That would

become. Bebido? Bebido. And an I-R verb bebear to live. Bebido. Bebido, exactly. So A-R becomes

E-D-O and E-R and I-R become I-D-O. So that's all very well for the past participle, but

what about the parts of A-V-R? Can you remember how that conjugates kara?

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