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Agrego leche al café.

Agrego leche al café.
I add milk to the coffee.
From Lesson 35:Conjunctions (y, o, pero)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Agrego leche al café.

Where is the word for "I" (yo) in this sentence?
In Spanish, the ending of the verb usually tells you who is doing the action. The -o at the end of agrego tells us that "I" am doing it. Because of this, you can leave out the word yo (I), and native speakers usually do unless they want to add extra emphasis.
Why does the sentence use al instead of a el?
Whenever the word a (to) is followed right away by el (the masculine word for "the"), they squish together to form the single word al. Since café is masculine, "to the coffee" becomes al café. You will almost never see a el written as two separate words.
Why is it just leche and not la leche?
Just like in English, when you are talking about an unspecified amount of something (like adding "milk" instead of "the milk"), you can leave the article (la) out. If you said la leche, it would mean you are adding the specific milk you were just talking about, rather than just adding milk in general.
What is the dictionary form of the verb agrego?
The dictionary form (called the infinitive) is agregar, which means "to add." Because it is a regular -ar verb, you just take off the -ar ending and put an -o on the end to make it agrego (I add).

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