Spanish Words: Ser Verb Conjugation

Series Summary

Spanish is the most studied foreign language among native English speakers, and is the most studied Romance language above French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. English and Mandarin Chinese are the only two languages with a greater number of speakers than Spanish; it is suggested that there are over 400 million Spanish speakers in the world today. In this free video series, a native Spanish speaker and Spanish teacher will demonstrate the various verb tenses for the Spanish verb "ser," meaning "to be," and explain how to conjugate the verb in each tense. Learn about the verb conjugation for the present, future and imperfect form of "ser". Get tips on the future perfect, present subjunctive and future subjunctive verb conjugations, as well. Conjugating verbs in various tenses is one of the most important parts of learning Spanish, so learn from an expert in this free language video series.

Video Transcript

"So in this Spanish series we're looking at the verb ser which means to be. This is a very important expression in Spanish that you should be familiar with in its many forms and so what I'll do is take the verb ser - to be - and apply it to the first, second and third person and formal and informal as well, and also look at this verb using many different forms so that you can properly express this verb in many different situations. So I'll pronounce it for you. I'll write it for you, and I recommend that you practice pronouncing it clearly and until you're comfortable saying each of the forms and also being familiar with the spelling so you can recognize the word as it's written."