{"id":4519,"date":"2012-03-26T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:58:16","slug":"verb-agreement-in-spanish-part-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/verb-agreement-in-spanish-part-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Verb agreement in Spanish &#8211; Part 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>La concordancia<\/em> is the harmonious combination of elements in a sentence. There are two kinds of agreement (concordancia) in Spanish: <em>la concordancia nominal<\/em> (noun agreement) and <em>la concordancia verbal<\/em> (verb agreement). Let&#8217;s check out some rules for <em>la concordancia verbal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. When we have only one subject, the verb agrees with it in number and person. In the following sentences, the subject is in bold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>El ni\u00f1o<\/strong> duerme tranquilo.<br \/>\n[The boy sleeps soundly.]<\/p>\n<p>Pasaron por mi casa <strong>los abuelos de Nacho<\/strong>.<br \/>\n[Nacho&#8217;s grandparents came by my house. &#8211; Remember that in Spanish we can invert the positin of subjects.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Las ni\u00f1as<\/strong> jugaban a la rayuela.<br \/>\n[The girls were playing hopscotch.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. When we subject is <em>compuesto<\/em> (two or more subjects) the verb must be in the plural form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salieron juntos <strong>tu pap\u00e1 y mi t\u00edo<\/strong>.<br \/>\n[Your dad and my uncle left together.]<br \/>\ntu pap\u00e1 y mi t\u00edo = ellos (3rd person plural)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>T\u00fa y yo<\/strong> no tenemos nada en com\u00fan.<br \/>\n[You and I have nothing in common.]<br \/>\nt\u00fa y yo = nosotros (1st person plural)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Juan y t\u00fa<\/strong> ser\u00e1n buenos amigos.<br \/>\n[Juan and you are probably good friends.]<br \/>\nJuan y t\u00fa = ustedes (3rd person plural &#8211; Latin American Spanish)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Spanish it is very common to see sentences where the verb agrees with<strong> nosotros(as)<\/strong> and <strong>vosotros(as)\/ustedes<\/strong>, but these ones do not come in a pronoun form, but as nouns. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Los artistas<\/strong> <em>ten\u00e9is<\/em> una vida muy agitada.<br \/>\n[You artists have a very hectic life.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Los m\u00e9dicos<\/strong> <em>gan\u00e1is<\/em> mucha plata pero <strong>los profesores<\/strong> <em>somos<\/em> muy mal remunerados.<br \/>\n[You doctors make a lot of money but we, teachers, are highly underpaid.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In our next post we will see some special cases of verb agreement en espa\u00f1ol, ok?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nos vemos prontito.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Adjacency_pair-350x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Adjacency_pair-350x270.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/Adjacency_pair.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>La concordancia is the harmonious combination of elements in a sentence. There are two kinds of agreement (concordancia) in Spanish: la concordancia nominal (noun agreement) and la concordancia verbal (verb agreement). Let&#8217;s check out some rules for la concordancia verbal. 1. 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