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Hablar, mirar, cantar — first -ar verbs
Module 1 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, first half), lesson 28 of 30: Most Spanish verbs end in -ar and behave like clockwork: hablo, hablas, habla. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
hablar
to speak
ah-BLAR
yo hablo
I speak
yoh AH-bloh
tú hablas
you speak
too AH-blahs
ella habla
she speaks
EH-yah AH-blah
mirar
to look at
mee-RAR
yo miro
I look
yoh MEE-roh
cantar
to sing
kahn-TAR
él canta
he sings
ehl KAHN-tah
el inglés
English (the language)
ehl een-GLEHS
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La regla · The rule
Most Spanish verbs end in -ar and behave like clockwork: hablo, hablas, habla. The endings speak — -o means I, -as means you, -a means he or she — which is why Spanish can drop its pronouns.
Y también · And also
Every regular -ar verb repeats this exact shape. Learn it once on these three and hundreds of verbs come pre-learned; the full paradigm with nosotros and ustedes belongs to Module 2.
Ojo · Watch out
The ending is the person: hablo is I speak, hablas is you speak, habla is he or she speaks. Three different sounds — write them with care.
hablar — the table
yo hablo · tú hablas · él/ella habla
mirar — the table
yo miro · tú miras · él/ella mira
cantar — the table
yo canto · tú cantas · él/ella canta
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with hablar.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out hablar and mirar and cantar in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.