Verb To Be

Después de aprender los artículos A/AN/THE, en esta lección aprenderemos el verbo «To Be» (Ser).

Conjugation of the verb «to be» (Conjugación del verbo «SER»)

To Be – Affirmative (Verbo Ser – Afirmativo)

Subject	To Be	Examples
I	am	I am from New Zealand.
You	are	You are Chilean.
He	is	He is twenty years old.
She	is	She is a nurse.
It	is	It is a big dog.
We	are	We are intelligent.
You	are	You are students.
They	are	They are married.

To Be – Contractions (Verbo Ser – Contracciones)

Contractions of To Be are very frequent when we are speaking.

To Be	Contraction	Examples
I am	I’m	I’m from New Zealand.
You are	You’re	You’re Chilean.
He is	He’s	He’s twenty years old.
She is	She’s	She’s a nurse.
It is	It’s	It’s a big dog.
We are	We’re	We’re intelligent.
You are	You’re	You’re students.
They are	They’re	They’re married.

To Be – Negative Sentences (Verbo Ser – Oraciones negativas)

The negative of To Be can be made by adding not after the verb.

Subject	To Be	Examples
I	am not	I am not from Spain.
You	are not	You are not Australian.
He	is not	He is not thirty years old.
She	is not	She is not a secretary.
It	is not	It is not a small cat.
We	are not	We are not stupid.
You	are not	You are not teachers.
They	are not	They are not single.

To Be – Negative Contractions (Verbo Ser – Contracciones negativas)

There are two ways of forming contractions of To Be in negative sentences. One is with a contraction of the subject and the verb (e.g. I am = I’m) OR a contraction of the verb and not (e.g. are not = aren’t)

I’m not from Spain.	—	————–*
You’re not Australian.	OR	You aren’t Australian.
He’s not thirty years old.	OR	He isn’t thirty years old.
She’s not a secretary.	OR	She isn’t a secretary.
It’s not a small cat.	OR	It isn’t a small cat.
We’re not stupid.	OR	We aren’t stupid.
You’re not teachers.	OR	You aren’t teachers.
They’re not single.	OR	They aren’t single.

En la próxima lección aprenderemos sobre los Body Verbs.