How To Describe Your Daily Routine In Spanish (Easy Template Included)

Talking about daily routines or morning routines is a great conversation starter. 

We recently did an article on 15 phrases to boost your conversations, and talking about daily routines is a good one to add to that list. 

Often, when I am learning a language and talking with other people, one of the easiest ways to start that conversation is to ask them what their morning routine is and then tell them mine. 

So I will start by telling you my morning routine in Spanish, “La rutina de la mañana.” 

And I want you to be on the lookout for a few things, okay

First, I want you to notice that I use all verbs in the present tense. 

That’s because I am talking about something I do every day. So pay attention to that. 

Next, take note of the transition words, words like: 

• “Primero” (first) ” 
• Luego (next)
• Antes de (before)
• Después de (after)
• La ultima (the last thing)

Those are the most common transition words that you will use.

Reflexive verbs in Spanish

You will also notice that many of the verbs I will use will be reflexive verbs. 

I should probably do an entire article on reflexive verbs—and I have that on my list…

But for today, since we are talking about ourselves, we will be only talking in the present “yo” so it won’t be too difficult. 

Let me give you a quick rundown of what a reflexive verb is and how to use it in Spanish. 

Reflexive verbs go with reflexive pronouns to show that someone is performing an action on themselves. 

So let’s take the simple example of lavarse las manos. 

When you want to say I wash my hands, in Spanish, you would say, “me lavo las manos.”

The verb used is “lavarse” – to wash oneself, the reflexive verb, not lavar (to wash).

In this example, we conjugate lavarse in the present tense and place the pronoun in front.

• Me lavo las manos (I wash my hands)
• Te lavas las manos (You wash your hands)
• Se lava las manos (He washes his hands)
• Nos lavamos las manos (We wash our hands)
• Os laváis las manos (Y’all wash your hands)
• Se lavan las manos (They wash their hands)

One mistake many people make is they:

me lavo mis manos instead of me lavo las manos — this is incorrect. 

Because you are using the reflexive verb, you don’t need the “mis” here. 

Make sense?

Again, today it should be easy because we are simply talking about ourselves. 

So everything will be conjugated in the me + present yo form. 

For example, me despierto, me levanto, me baño, etc. 

I think it will be best if we start with the morning routine. 

And that’s how I want you to start. 

It’s mainly because it’s effortless to have the same morning routine every day. 

It’s a little more challenging to have an entire daily routine that doesn’t change much. 

There are a lot of things that can happen throughout the day. 

So let me tell you my morning routine in Spanish, then after that, we will analyze what I said, and I will give you a simple template you can use to say your daily routine. 

Click play on the audio below to listen.