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Can for ability

but she can so she in general she speaks german if she wants to she can speak german there that's ability so this is general action and i am american is a description good and t...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Basic sentences and descriptionsSubtitles: en

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english

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but she can so she in general she speaks

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german if she wants to she can speak

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german there that's ability

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so this is general action

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and i am american

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is a description

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good and then abilities yeah so she

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speaks german

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um

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all right

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so when we use the simple present with

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most verbs the conjugation is pretty

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simple

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so the conjugation is the way that we

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change the verb depending on who's doing

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it

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so let's see look at the verb walk

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how do you conjugate the word walk in

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english

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you have

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i walk

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again this is simple present

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you

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walk

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she he and it

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walks

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this is the only one that's different

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here this one's special

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he walks

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she walks it walks

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and then

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we have we walk

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and they walk

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okay

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um so this is

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true for most regular verbs

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um good yeah so jen's writing an example

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for us thank you

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i walk my dog walking is good exercise

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yeah it's my favorite good

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really good you guys um

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there are some special verbs though

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um and instead of just adding an s in

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the third person singular

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you have to add an e s

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now can you let us know in the comments

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what are some examples of verbs what

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verbs do you add an e s to the end when

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you say she

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does it or he does it

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an e

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funny because do is one of those verbs i

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do but he does she does but there are

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some other verbs that are not um helping

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verbs

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oh

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maybe you can click the plus sign here

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can you guys still read that

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and then maybe change the balance a

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little bit so we're still smaller again

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uh okay oh okay sorry

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um all right so

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um yeah so those irregular verbs would

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be for example

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