Hola.
In this video lesson, we'll be talking about the verb "IR": to go.
This verb is 'irregular', which means that it is not changed according to any of the
rules we've learned so far for verbs.
But after changing it into all the forms, I'll tell you a way to remember it.
So we have: Yo voy.
I go or I’m going.
Tú vas.
You go or you’re going.
Él va.
He goes. He is going.
Ella va.
She goes. She is going.
Usted va.
You go. You are going (formally).
Nosotros vamos.
We go. We are going.
Nosotras vamos.
We (the females) go. We (the females) are going.
Ellos van.
They go. They are going.
Ellas van.
They (the females) go. They (the females) are going.
Ustedes van.
You all go. You all are going.
If you can remember, THEY GO IN A VAN, you'll know the THEY (ELLOS) form, which should help
you to remember the rest of the forms.
So if you know the ellos form is spelled “van”.
You should know the rest: voy, vas, va, vamos, van.
So let's say that I wanted to use this verb with some places.
Let's check out some vocabulary having to do with places.
We have: el campo
el parque
la playa
el parque de diversiones
la piscina
el gimnasio
el centro comercial
el museo
el restaurante
el cine
la escuela
la tienda
la biblioteca
la iglesia
Ok, now.. the rule for the verb IR is that when I want to go 'TO' a place, I have to
add this little bitty word, "A" after ir...
So, for example, if I want to say "i go to the pool", I would say, “Yo voy a la piscina.”
Do you go to school?
Remember, when I form a question in Spanish, I ignore the word ‘do’ at beginning.
It doesn’t really do much for us. In Spanish we don't really translate that word.
So what I am really asking is “You go to school?”
¿(tú) Vas a la escuela?
How about "We go to the mall”?
Nosotros vamos a el centro comercial.
It turns out that there is a problem with this sentence.
Whenever I have an 'a' plus 'el' such as in this sentence, they go together to form 'al'.
So we have A + el = AL
It only happens with 'el' though.
With ‘la’ they stay two separate words.
So we have “Nosotros vamos a el centro comercial.”
That’s incorrecto.
It should be: “Nosotros vamos al centro comercial.”
For they go to the movies.
Again, we'd have 'el cine' so a + el will become 'al' and we have “Ellos van al cine.”
Ok, now that you know the rules, how about you try to figure some out.
Make sure to pause the video if you need more time and check the word bank
if you really aren’t sure what a word is.
What I’ll do is I’ll have the person and the place.
I want you to tell me that the person goes to the place or the people go to the place.
And if there is a question mark, you can make it into a question.
For the first one, see if you can figure it out and I’ll give you the answer.
Yo voy al gimnasio.
Second one.
¿(Tú) vas a la tienda?
Nosotros no vamos al museo.
Juan y Salvador van al cine.
¿(Usted) Va al centro comercial?
Señor Ortiz va a la playa.
Los estudiantes van a la escuela.
ONE MORE.
Let's see if you can make a more complicated sentence.
Remember that ‘porque' is because.
So the sentence is, “I don’t go to the pool because I don’t like to swim.”
This is reviewing various concepts we’ve been going over in these videos.
Hopefully you got: "Yo no voy a la piscina porque no me gusta nadar."
Hope this was helpful! Thanks as always for watching.
I appreciate it.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this video or others let me know.
¡Gracias y adiós!