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LearnCraft Spanish

103: Spanish Interjections

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How do you say "um" in Spanish? Or how about "yikes" or "all right"? Let's learn some of the most common Spanish interjections and get practice using them in context!

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/103

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0:00.0

Well, let's about about something more.

0:05.1

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:10.1

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:15.1

Today we're going to learn a bunch of interjections

0:17.8

so that you can say things like,

0:19.7

ouch, okay, stop, and goodbye in Spanish.

0:26.1

First, we're going to work a little bit more on indefinite words,

0:30.3

because there are just a couple more that we didn't have time to go over last week.

0:34.6

The good news is that you're already sort of familiar with them. The first one is the

0:40.2

adjective, quantos, spelled C-U-A-N-T-O-S, with an accent mark on the A. This is closely related to the

0:50.7

word quanto, which we learned as an adverb to ask how much. The word

0:56.7

quantos means how many. For example, how many children does she have?

1:06.2

Quantos irehos have? For mass nouns, you might use it simply as quanto or quanta.

1:16.7

For example, how much water do you want?

1:23.0

Quanta Agua Quirees?

1:27.1

A related word is

1:29.3

Quanto without an accent mark, which is used in some very idiomatic cases and not typically

1:36.4

in questions.

1:37.9

It means something like as much or as much as.

1:49.6

Here's one example. They can have as much as they want.

2:02.6

So to say as much as they want, we just used quanto and then a subjunctive.

2:05.3

Try it yourself with this next one.

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