Conjugating the Spanish Verb Invitar (to Invite)

Spanish verbs fall into different groups, and each group is conjugated a little differently. If you’re going to master Spanish verbs like invitar, you need to be able to identify which group a verb belongs to: regular (follows regular conjugation rules for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs), stem-changing (morphs depending on how you use it in a sentence), spelling-changing (has consonant-spelling changes in some forms to follow pronunciation rules), or reflexive (reflects the action back on the subject of the sentence).

Invitar (een-bvee-tahr) (to invite) is a regular -ar verb, so its conjugation is pretty easy. Here it is in the present tense:

The following examples show you invitar in action:

• ¿Me invitas a tu fiesta? (Can you invite me to your party?)

• Sí. Te invito, y trae a tus amigos. (Yes. I invite you, and bring your friends.)

Need to know how to conjugate invitar in another tense? The following tables show you the preterit, imperfect, and future forms.

You use the preterit tense like this:

• ¿Nos invitaron ellos a comer? (Did they invite us to eat?)

• No. Nos invitaron a beber. (No. They invited us to drink.)

Here are some examples of the imperfect tense:

• ¿Invitabas a tus amigos a tu fiesta de cumpleaños? (Did you use to invite your friends to your birthday party?)

• Sí. Pero solo invitaba a veinte amigos. (Yes. But I used to invite only twenty friends.)

The following samples put the future tense to work:

• Te invitaré a mi casa en Texas. (I will invite you to my house in Texas.)

• Y yo te invitaré a mi casa en Orlando. (And I will invite to my house in Orlando.)