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Practise the present tense of -ar verbs
(Latin American forms)

On this page, you'll practise all of the forms of the present tense of -ar verbs used in Latin America. We therefore won't include the vosotros form of the verb, which is generally only used in Spain. (Alternatively, you can practise Peninsular Spanish forms, including the vosotros forms.)

That means that we'll be practising the following extra forms here:

In Latin American Spanish, the plural you form is the same as the they form, ending in -n. The plural subject pronoun meaning you is ustedes, although like Spanish subject pronouns in general, it is generally omitted and you can omit it here.

You'll still have to use the other forms practised on the previous pages. If you've forgotten anything, you can always go back to the yo and tú forms or él/ella and nosotros forms before continuing here.

Once you get to the stage where you can fill in this grid (several times!) without hesitating, then you'll have mastered the basic present tense forms of -ar verbs.

Next, we'll consider a handful of -ar verbs which have a slight complication of a vowel change in the stem in certain forms.

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