Lesson 10.1.2 · Más conjugaciones
🏊 More Verbs in Action
Building on the first conjugation lesson — more third-person singular forms you'll hear in stories about what someone does daily.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
Daily actions (he/she ___)
Notice the pattern: -ar verbs end in -a (cocina, nada), -er and -ir verbs end in -e (come, escribe).
(he/she) eats
From comer — to eat.
(he/she) cooks
From cocinar — to cook.
(he/she) swims
From nadar. Also means 'nothing' — context decides.
(he/she) writes
From escribir — to write.
Example sentences
Hoy estoy come.
Today I feel (he/she) eats.
Mi amigo es muy cocina.
My friend is very (he/she) cooks.
La comida está nada.
The food is (he/she) swims.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy come.
My friend is very (he/she) eats.
La comida está cocina.
The food is (he/she) cooks.
A few more animals
Adding to your animal vocabulary — useful for stories, kids' books, and naming what's flying past your window in Manizales.
the bird
the cat
the sheep
Example sentences
Necesito el pájaro, por favor.
I need the bird, please.
¿Dónde está el gato?
Where is the cat?
Me gusta la oveja.
I like the sheep.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el pájaro?
Where is the bird?
Me gusta el gato.
I like the cat.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
the sheep
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
the bird
the cat
(he/she) eats
cocina
la oveja
(he/she) writes
Fill the blank
¿Dónde está el _____?
Where is the cat?
Fill the blank
La comida está _____.
The food is (he/she) swims.
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