Can you name the present tense conjugations of 'ser'?

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Spanish: 'To Be' Quiz

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	er1c:	Sep 17th, 2008 at 21:11 GMT		-3 points
	How about the vos form (vos sos=tu eres)? Vosotros (used in only one country, Spain) is included, while vos is excluded despite being used by a substantially greater number of people than vosotros.

	M R:	Sep 18th, 2008 at 03:33 GMT		3 points
	What about estar? The other verb to be.

	hbcrayons:	Nov 7th, 2008 at 22:49 GMT		32 points
	It should be 'ellos/ellas' right now it's ellos and elles which is French.

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	er1c:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 16:02 GMT		2 points
	Why was my previous comment down-voted? Vos is used, by some or all of the population, in nearly every country in Latin America. There are at least 4 countries where the "tu" form hardly exists - Argentina, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Paraguay.

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	p337:	Jan 1st, 2009 at 22:24 GMT		3 points
	Even if vosotros usage were considered to be uncommon, it would still serve as a way to see how many people know the conjugation. What fun is it if everyone gets it all right?

	ArcticFahx:	Jan 19th, 2009 at 16:43 GMT		2 points
	Roman: Perhaps because estar is a far more regular verb (excepting that it has a shifted accenting compared to normal), whereas ser is completely irregular, and thus more challenging a quiz.

	Chaz:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT		1 point
	I've taken 3 years of Spanish as well, and even though we didn't learn specifically the vosotros form we did know the basics.

	Arthur:	Feb 15th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT		15 points
	sporcle necesita mas pruebas en espanol

	Arthur:	Feb 15th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT		5 points
	And yes you need to change "ellos/elles" to "ellos/ellas"

	brezhnev:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 01:42 GMT		9 points
	eric is right. i'm an argentine, and we use vos almost exclusively. as a result, i almost forgot "eres" but remembered it from verb conjugation charts

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	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 01:55 GMT		-1 points
	good one.

	Kaytayyyyyyy:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 22:47 GMT		-3 points
	Ustedes son is not formal, it's a familiar way of saying "all of you are". Vosotros is "all of you" in Spain.

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	katie6098:	Apr 28th, 2009 at 23:49 GMT		-4 points
	ahhh 2 out of 8 that is horrible! I've been in spanish classes since 7th grade and now I'm a sophomore in college DX

	ArcticFahx:	May 7th, 2009 at 21:47 GMT		11 points
	Wrong, Katie. Vosotros is familiar in Spain, Ustedes is formal. In the rest of the Spanish-speaking world, Ustedes is both formal and familiar because they don't use Vosotros.

	redfire389:	Jun 12th, 2009 at 12:49 GMT		1 point
	ustedes would be the same as vosotros and same for usted and tu, just a formal way, at least here in spain.. And it's ellos/ellas.. Elles would be in catalan, valencia or something

	Octoman:	Jun 13th, 2009 at 02:28 GMT		2 points
	My Spanish teacher is Colombian, but we learned the conjugation for vosotros but didn't use it. I only kind of remembered how the vosotros conjugation ended for ser but I tried every vowel in there except o.

	Journey2688:	Jun 23rd, 2009 at 03:17 GMT		-3 points
	In my opinion, vosotros should be a bonus answer. Also, think that they should add a estar conjugation.

	mary:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 14:40 GMT		6 points
	@Journey2688: Not a bad idea about the estar conjugation, but in my opinion vosotros is far too important to be just a bonus -- it's virtually never used in Latin America (except occasionally to tease a Spaniard - sort of how an American might say "g'day mate" to annoy an Australian friend) but in Spain it's used all the time, far more frequently than the slightly stuffy "ustedes"; in all the time I lived there I think I used ustedes as the plural of "you" no more than a dozen times. I also think vos should be added as well - it might not be "standard" Spanish, but it's so widely used throughout much of South America that I think it's completely valid - at the very least as a bonus!

	jmm330:	Jul 26th, 2009 at 01:15 GMT		-2 points
	8/8 very easy i take spanish 1

	vic_kun:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT		0 points
	You should do a Portuguese to be verb 8D. That would be nice, I think... And change the ellos/elles, it's ellos/ellas.

	FishyInSpain:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 22:11 GMT		-2 points
	artur tienie razon!

	lifesgood122:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 20:07 GMT		-1 points
	a year up in spanish helps a lot

	figols:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 21:45 GMT		-1 points
	the advantage of spanish is that you don't need to say yo tu el nosotros vosotros ellos

	CatCompanion09:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 21:51 GMT		-1 points
	eleven seconds. Seventh grade spanish teaches that in the first week.

	Golonguthur:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 20:14 GMT		2 points
	Nessecitas hacer una prueba por 'estar'. No pensaba de sois, porque es el espanol de espana, y yo aprende el espanol mexicano.

	SweeneyxxTodd:	Feb 18th, 2010 at 02:42 GMT		-1 points
	You should specify in the directions that the quiz is using ser. I started off trying to use estar.

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	its_pi_time:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 19:15 GMT		2 points
	I've been taking Spanish for about three years, and my teachers always skip over the vosotros form,,, that's the only one I missed.

	mhorse51698:	Apr 14th, 2010 at 19:50 GMT		-4 points
	peace of cake... 100% in 30 seconds and in 6th grade. i know right? lol

	WKS:	Apr 25th, 2010 at 23:07 GMT		-3 points
	I took spanish for 9 years and never learned to take vosotros seriously (except for this one teacher who never taught us how to use it but made us memorize a couple conjugations) Honestly.... most people don't use it. But otherwise fun :P

	daHOOK:	May 30th, 2010 at 03:34 GMT		7 points
	At least put the vos form as a bonus answer.

	DanteLeonhart:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 02:48 GMT		1 point
	I think there's a lot of troubles with vos/tu and vosotros/ustedes, but from a Spanish spanish point of vew this test is 100% correct. @WKS so you'll got troubles if you travel to spain :P

	SEMOredhawks:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 21:32 GMT		2 points
	Vosotros is mainly used in Espana.

	Iceydude168:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 01:06 GMT		-3 points
	lol so easy I got 4 secs! Of course, I'm taking Spanish I, so this was pretty simple for me. Good job to everyone who isn't taking Spanish and actually finished! And I also I got the 2nd favorite.

	blan_mannan:	Oct 1st, 2010 at 00:27 GMT		7 points
	Vos is a legitimate (and widespread) pronoun in Spanish. Of the roughly 20 countries in which Spanish is the dominant language, there are only 3 in which 'vos' is never used by any of the native population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voseo

	monster:	Nov 3rd, 2010 at 21:16 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz! This is what I needed to study for my spanish quiz