📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 5 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 1 · El presente — the full present tense
Ir and hacer — the two giants
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 5 of 30: Two irregular giants. On this page: 10 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
ir
to go
eer
yo voy
I go / I am going
yoh BOY
nosotros vamos
we go
noh-SOH-trohs BAH-mohs
yo voy a la escuela
I go to school
yoh boy ah lah ehs-KWEH-lah
la escuela
the school
lah ehs-KWEH-lah
al parque
to the park
ahl PAR-keh
hacer
to do / to make
ah-SEHR
yo hago la tarea
I do the homework
yoh AH-goh lah tah-REH-ah
la tarea
the homework
lah tah-REH-ah
ellos hacen deporte
they play sports
EH-yohs AH-sehn deh-POHR-teh
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.
La regla · The rule
Two irregular giants. Ir (to go): voy, vas, va, vamos, van, van. Hacer (to do, to make): hago, haces, hace, hacemos, hacen, hacen. Ir is the only Spanish verb whose forms share no letter with its infinitive — learn it whole.
Y también · And also
Voy a la escuela — I go to school. Vamos al parque — a + el fuses into al, always. Hago la tarea (I do the homework), and the weather runs on hacer: hace calor. Vamos also means "let's go!" and you will hear it every day.
Ojo · Watch out
a + el always fuses to al: voy al parque, never voy a el parque. a + la stays as it is: voy a la escuela. Only the masculine article fuses.
ir, presente — the table
yo voy · tú vas · él/ella/usted va · nosotros vamos · ustedes van · ellos/ellas van
hacer, presente — the table
yo hago · tú haces · él/ella/usted hace · nosotros hacemos · ustedes hacen · ellos/ellas hacen
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ir.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out ir, presente and hacer, presente 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.