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Now that we've learned a couple of regular verbs that end with A-R, it's time to learn another

conjugation pattern. There are regular

verbs in Spanish that follow very predictable patterns, but a different pattern than

Ablar, specifically regular verbs that end with ER. The most important of these verbs is Beber.

We'll spend two episodes on this verb, and then once you've learned how to conjugate it,

you'll be able to conjugate countless other regular ER verbs in Spanish.

Debert is most commonly used to mean something like must, and it tends to be used right before

another verb. That's true in English as well. If you use the word must, you're probably putting it

before another verb. For example, must do or must have or must be.

In that way, debert is a lot like Poder.

It's what we call a modal verb, a verb that's used right before another verb with some sort of meaning attached.

Now, when we learned Poder, we learned that instead of saying, I can do it, Spanish speakers say something more like, I am able to do it, or lo poedo to do it.

And this allows us to do some things that aren't really possible in English. In the case of Poder, the equivalent English word

can is really hard to conjugate in the future or the past. But Poder does have forms that apply to the

past tense, the future tense, or any other tense. The verb de bear is very similar.

Compare the following sentences.

We want to do that.

We are able to do that.

We are able to do that.

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