Wow! Today’s Verb of the day is ser: the most important Spanish verb. Ser is the English verb “to be”. Actually, Spanish has two verbs for “to be”: ser and estar. Learning the difference is one of the biggest challenges when learning Spanish. However, the main difference is ser means to permanently be for example: él es español (he is Spanish), because your nationality doesn’t change. While estar implies that something changed, for example: estoy en España (I am in Spain), because you weren’t in Spain earlier.
Ser is the most frequently used verb, and it is often the first verb which new students of Spanish learn in school. Ser is also one of the most irregular verbs with exceptions in the present tense, both past tenses, and in both the subjunctive and imperative moods. Of course, in English, the verb “to be” is also the most frequently used verb, and one of the few irregular English verbs.
What does this mean?
It means that learning the verb ser is likely to take a little longer, because there are more irregular spellings to keep in mind in comparison to regular verbs such as hablar (to speak). Given how often the verb is used, it is necessary to learn the conjugation and get it right.
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