Practice some of the vocabulary from this song and its irregular and stem-changing verbs using these flashcards, games and exercises.

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Activities

Vocabulary Exercises

We have chosen 15 words and phrases out of this song to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

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Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

About all this song provided to practice grammatically are a few irregular present tense verbs and a few verbs that have stem changes in the present tense, so we’ll focus on those. Full conjugations of these verbs can be found below.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs:

Irregular and Stem-Changing Verb Flashcards – Practice the irregular and stem-changing verbs in this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Irregular and Stem-Changing Verb Games – Practice the irregular and stem-changing verbs in this song using our memory and matching games and crossword puzzle.

Irregular and Stem-Changing Verb Exercises – Practice the irregular and stem-changing verbs in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
cama	bed	fem noun	cama
canción	song	fem noun	canción
cotidiano	daily, everyday; routine	adj	cotidiano
dar	to give	irreg verb	das
depender	depend, rely, need, be dependent	reg verb	depende
derrumbar	to demolish, raze, knockdown; destroy, shatter; overthrow, topple	reg verb	derrumbaste
explicación	explanation, reason; lecture	fem noun	explicación
hoy	today; nowadays, now	adv	hoy
humor	mood, humor	masc noun	humor
infinito	into the sunset, to the end of the world and back; infinity	masc noun	infinito
medir	to measure; to calculate weigh; consider, think about	stm chg verb	medimos
permiso	permission; leave; permit, license	masc noun	permiso
piedra	stone, rock; hailstone, hail	fem noun	piedras
plan	plan	masc noun	plan
vida	life	fem noun	vida

Verbs

The activities for this song cover two types of present tense verbs: irregular and stem-changing.

Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs do not follow the normal conjugation rules. This may be in just one form, as in the verb saber, which has an irregular yo form, or it may include up to all forms, as in the verb ser.

Note that the verb tener is irregular as it has an irregular yo form, but it is also a stem-changing verb.

Stem-Changing Verbs

Some Spanish verbs require changes to the verb stem during conjugation, where one vowel is replaced by a different vowel or combination of vowels. These verbs take the normal -ar, -er or -ir endings. There are three groups of stem-changing verbs:

• ‘e‘ to ‘ie‘
• ‘e‘ to ‘i‘
• ‘o‘ to ‘ue‘

This stem change applies to all conjugations other than nosotros and vosotros. These verbs are also called boot verbs, due to the shape drawn around the stem-changing forms in table form, as shown below with the verb ‘querer’ which takes an ‘e’ to ‘ie’ stem change.

Conjugations

Following are the full present tense conjugations of the irregular and stem-changing verbs that appear in this song.

saber = to know

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) sé	(nosotros) sabemos
2nd Person	(tú) sabes	(vosotros) sabéis
3rd Person	él/ella/usted sabe	ellos/ellas/ustedes saben

dar = to give

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) doy	(nosotros) damos
2nd Person	(tú) das	(vosotros) dais
3rd Person	él/ella/usted da	ellos/ellas/ustedes dan

ser = to be

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) soy	(nosotros) somos
2nd Person	(tú) eres	(vosotros) sois
3rd Person	él/ella/usted es	ellos/ellas/ustedes son

tener (e > ie) = to have

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) tengo	(nosotros) tenemos
2nd Person	(tú) tienes	(vosotros) tenéis
3rd Person	él/ella/usted tiene	ellos/ellas/ustedes tienen

sentir (e > ie) = to feel; sense; hear; taste; feel about, think about; feel sorry about

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) siento	(nosotros) sentimos
2nd Person	(tú) sientes	(vosotros) sentís
3rd Person	él/ella/usted siente	ellos/ellas/ustedes sienten

entender (e > ie)f = to understand

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) entiendo	(nosotros) entendemos
2nd Person	(tú) entiendes	(vosotros) entendéis
3rd Person	él/ella/usted entiende	ellos/ellas/ustedes entienden

querer (e > ie) = to want; to love

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) quiero	(nosotros) queremos
2nd Person	(tú) quieres	(vosotros) queréis
3rd Person	él/ella/usted quiere	ellos/ellas/ustedes quieren

medir (e > i) = to measure; to calculate weigh; consider, think about

	Singular	Plural
1st Person	(yo) mido	(nosotros) medimos
2nd Person	(tú) mides	(vosotros) medís
3rd Person	él/ella/usted mide	ellos/ellas/ustedes miden