enviar means: to bundle off, to despatch, to dispatch, to send
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In this conjugation lesson we are going to learn how to inflect the verb enviar in the Presente tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create and translate forms of each grammatical person.

This lesson is specifically about the enviar conjugation. For a general overview of all the Simple Tenses conjugation have a look at our Simple Tenses Conjugation Chart.

We also have a Video Presentation on how to conjugate verbs in Presente. It’s embedded below, but using the above link you will see additional information on conjugation in this tense as well as explanation of exceptions and special cases.

How to translate Presente to English

Notice that the phrases in English provided below next to each conjugation are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:

• In Spanish conjugation, there is the form usted in the third person singular. But this person does not translate to the English third person singular. It translates to the so called formal you and uses the inflected form which is most often represented as he/she/it in English conjugation charts.
• Similar situation happens in the third person plural, where ustedes translates to the English plural formal you but uses the form which corresponds to the they form in English.
• Tenses are used differently in Spanish and English, so the actual translation should always take into account the context and focus on translating the meaning, not just words.
• In both languages each verb may have multiple meanings and not every meaning translates directly to the other language. Here also, the context and focusing on the particular meaning helps to create the most accurate translation.

The Spanish Presente de Indicativo tense translates to one of the following:

• The English Present tense, for instance:
  ella envía

  she bundles off
• The English Present Progressive (or Present Continuous) tense, for instance:
  ahora mismo tú envías

  you are bundling off right now
  
  Notice that the Spanish equivalent of the Present Progressive also exists and is in common use – that’s Presente Progresivo (a.k.a. Presente Continuo).

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Step by step instructions

Presente belongs to the simple tenses group, which means that all of its conjugated forms are one word long. There are also compound (compuesto) tenses in Spanish language, where each conjugated verb form consists of two words.The verb enviar in the Presente tense of the Indicativo mood conjugates following the normal rules for its conjugation group (-ar), but requires four spelling corrections. The spelling corrections are in most cases not considered to be irregularities as they are predictable and often happen only in spelling to match the pronounced forms. For example that includes modifications necessary to keep the same consonant sound before the letters e/i and a/o which influence the pronunciation of c, g, z and others. Other corrections are accent changes, adding or dropping letters, etc. The basis for this conjugation is the stem of the verb, so we have to start by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s very easy to do. Just remove two letters from the end of the infinitive and you have the ending — one of -ar, -er or -ir. What’s left is the stem. So for enviar:

• the stem is: envi-
• and the ending is: -ar

Use the stem envi- in each person as the basis for conjugations, the common prefix that each of the forms begins with. Next, add to this regular stem the endings specific to each person. See the image on the side showing all the six endings. Notice the shapes and colors of the letters. It will help you find patterns and make it easier to remember these endings.Each grammatical person has a specific ending in each of the three conjugation groups -ar, -er, -ir. Add the regular ending -o for the first person singular to create envio:

• yo envio – I bundle off

A spelling correction is necessary here.

This verb belongs to the group which in the infinitive form contains a diphthong. It means a weak vowel i/u and a strong vowel a/e/o are combined in a single syllable giving a sound which begins as one vowel and moves towards the other. English also has it in words like: cloud, coin.

In this verb group the weak vowel is stressed in pronunciation, so to preserve it in writing (avoiding the diphthong) we need to add an accent.So add the accent to get envío:

• yo envío – I bundle off

As before add the regular ending -as for the second person singular to create envias:

• tú envias – you bundle off

A spelling correction is necessary here as before. We need to add the accent to get envías:

• tú envías – you bundle off

And one more time add the regular ending -a for the third person singular to create envia:

• él envia – he bundles off
• ella envia – she bundles off
• usted envia – (formal) you bundle off

A spelling correction is necessary here as well. You have to add the accent to get envía:

• él envía – he bundles off
• ella envía – she bundles off
• usted envía – (formal) you bundle off

And similarly add the regular ending -amos for the first person plural to create enviamos:

• nosotros enviamos – we bundle off
• nosotras enviamos – (feminine) we bundle off

And similarly add the regular ending -áis for the second person plural to create enviáis:

• vosotros enviáis – (plural) you bundle off
• vosotras enviáis – (feminine, plural) you bundle off

As before add the regular ending -an for the third person plural to create envian:

• ellos envian – they bundle off
• ellas envian – (feminine) they bundle off
• ustedes envian – (formal, plural) you bundle off

A spelling correction is necessary here as well. We need to add the accent to get envían:

• ellos envían – they bundle off
• ellas envían – (feminine) they bundle off
• ustedes envían – (formal, plural) you bundle off

This is it! The conjugation is now complete. Put together, the conjugation chart looks like this:

yo	envío	I bundle off
tú	envías	you bundle off
él/ella/usted	envía	he/she/it bundles off
nosotros/nosotras	enviamos	we bundle off
vosotros/vosotras	enviáis	you bundle off
ellos/ellas/ustedes	envían	they bundle off

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