Using todos with verbs

[barefootjon]

Hi,

I've been looking for a spanish forum to get some help and found you guys.
You'd think that Pimsleur would have a place to ask questions, but they don't. I'm on lesson 19 of Pimsleur Spanish and it confused me about using todos. The phrase was:

everyone is going to eat together

And they translated to:

todos van a comer juntos

Then the second phrase was:

all of us eat meat

And they translated that to:

todos comemos carne


So why in the first phrase did the use "van", but in the second they used "comemos". I would think it should be "van/comen" or "vamos/comemos". The tense changed and I don't know why.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Jon

[Rusty]

The reason for the person change was because the first sentence didn't include the speaker and the second one did (all of us).

Grammatically speaking, you have a plural third-person subject pronoun (all are going ...) in the first sentence, and a plural first-person subject pronoun (all of us) in the second sentence. The verb has to agree in person and number with the subject.

[barefootjon]

Thank you for the explanation. Learning is hard