hablas

Hablas is the second-person singular present indicative form of the Spanish verb hablar, meaning to speak or to talk. In everyday usage, hablas corresponds to "you speak" or "you are speaking" when addressing a single informal interlocutor. The subject pronoun tú is often omitted because the verb ending marks the person and number.

Grammatical background: hablar is an -ar verb. The present indicative forms are: hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos, habláis, hablan. The form hablas is formed from the verb stem habl- plus the second-person singular ending -as. There is no accent in hablas, and the usual pronunciation places stress on the first syllable.

Usage and examples: ¿Hablas español? (Do you speak Spanish?) Ella habla muy bien. Tú hablas demasiado rápido. In formal contexts, the second-person singular usted uses the form habla instead of hablas: ¿Usted habla español?

Etymology: hablas comes from the Spanish verb hablar, which derives from Latin fabulāri "to talk, relate," via Old Spanish hablar, from Latin fabulāre related to fabula (story). The root is connected to speaking and storytelling, a pattern shared across Romance languages.

See also: hablar, conjugation, hablas as part of the andar conjugation family in Spanish.