Spanish Verb SER - to be. Your Daily Spanish Lesson

Spanish Verb SER: to be. Fully conjugated

The Spanish for 'to be' is the irregular Spanish verb ser.
Imagine you want to be a SERIOUS person.

SER, a top ten Spanish verb describes WHAT or WHO something or someone is.
ESTAR (to be) describes HOW something is.

I find that the fastest and easiest way to learn and REMEMBER new Spanish words is with memory trigger cartoon pictures ... and the best way to REMEMBER the 10 main uses of SER, and 27 uses of ESTAR is with the cartoons of SER-pents [like SER-ious SERlock Holmes (left)] involved in the various uses of SER. Also the ESTAR bunny in cartoons of the various uses of ESTAR in our dedicated SER-ESTAR course. (More below the verb table ...)

to be: ser
Imagine you want TO BE a SERIOUS person.

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE SER (to be)
Simple Tenses - Spanish Verb ser
TENSE	yo	tú	él, ella, usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos, ellas, ustedes
Present Presente am, are, is	soy	eres	es	somos	sois	son
Imperfect Imperfecto was, were	era	eras	era	erámos	eráis	eran
Preterit Pretérito was, were	fui	fuiste	fue	fuimos	fuisteis	fueron
Future Futuro will be	seré	serás	será	seremos	seréis	serán
Conditional Condicional would be	sería	serías	sería	seríamos	seríais	serían
Subjunctive Subjuntivo may be	sea	seas	sea	seamos	seáis	sean
Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjuntivo may have been	fuera	fueras	fuera	fuéramos	fuerais	fueran
	fuese	fueses	fuese	fuésemos	fueseis	fuesen
Imperatives Spanish Verb ser
Imperative Imperativo be!		sé!	sea!	seamos!	sed!	sean!
Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo don't be!		no seas!	no sea!	no seamos!	no seáis!	no sean!
Compound Tenses of the Spanish Verb ser Past Participle: *sido*
Present Perfect Perfecto de Indicativo have been	he sido	has sido	ha sido	hemos sido	habéis sido	han sido
Preterit Perfect Pretérito Anterior had been	hube sido	hubiste sido	hubo sido	hubimos sido	hubisteis sido	hubieron sido
Past Perfect Pluscuamperfecto had been	había sido	habías sido	había sido	habíamos sido	habíais sido	habían sido
Present Perfect Subjunctive Presente perfecto have been	haya sido	hayas sido	haya sido	hayamos sido	hayáis sido	hayan sido
Future Perfect Futuro Perfecto will have been	habré sido	habrás sido	habrá sido	habremos sido	habréis sido	habrán sido
Conditional Perfect Condicional Perfecto would have been	habría sido	habrías sido	habría sido	habríamos sido	habríais sido	habrían sido
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto may have been	hubiera sido	hubieras sido	hubiera sido	hubiéramos sido	hubierais sido	hubieran sido
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto may have been	hubiese sido	hubieses sido	hubiese sido	hubiésemos sido	hubieseis sido	hubiesen sido
Progressive Tenses ser Present Participle: *siendo*
Present Progressive Presente Progressivo am, are being	estoy siendo	estás siendo	está siendo	estamos siendo	está siendo	están siendo
Preterit Progressive Pretérito was being	estuve siendo	estuviste siendo	estuvo siendo	estuvimos siendo	estuvisteis siendo	estuvieron siendo
Imperfect Progressive Imperfecto had been being	estaba siendo	estabas siendo	estaba siendo	estábamos siendo	estabais siendo	estaban siendo
Future Progressive Futuro Perfecto will be being	estaré siendo	estarás siendo	estará siendo	estaremos siendo	estaréis siendo	estarán siendo
Conditional Progressive Condicional perfecto would have been being	estaría siendo	estarías siendo	estabría siendo	estaríamos siendo	estaríais siendo	estarían siendo
Subjunctive Progressive Subjuntivo may have been being	que ~ siendo	que ~ siendo	que ~ siendo	que ~ siendo	que ~ siendo	que ~ siendo

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USING the SPANISH VERB SER

SERlock Holmes and his SER-pent friends can help you learn the different uses of the Spanish verb SER. I find that it is so easy to remember the visual imprints that a cartoon leaves in the brain enabling me to remember the 10 main uses of the verb ser.

Likewise I found it much easier to learn and remember the 27 main uses of the Spanish verb estar with the dozens of cartoons of the ESTAR Bunny. These unique cartoons make language learning so much easier.

Another verb that can be used for certain forms of the English verb 'to be' is tener - to be hungry, to be 20 years old, to be cold, to be hot, to be frightened ... these all use the verb tener, as do loads of idiomatic expressions.

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The Spanish verb ser is an irregular verb, and you need to learn it.
Learn to conjugate ser and learn how it differs from the verb estar.
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