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LearnCraft Spanish

112: Esperar

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Let's learn the Spanish verb Esperar so that we can talk about "hoping" and "waiting" in Spanish. Speak along to get lots of out-loud practice with the verb Esperar!

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/112

 

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0:00.0

Espera.

0:01.1

I Tenggo uno.

0:04.0

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

0:09.1

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:13.8

Today we're going to learn another regular verb ending with A.R.

0:18.1

conjugated exactly like the verb,

0:20.0

Ablar.

0:22.3

Today's verb is Esperar, which means to hope.

0:26.3

The most common conjugations are

0:28.3

Espera and Espero.

0:32.1

For example, I hope she's here.

0:37.1

Espero that there I hope she's here. I hope that they're friends.

0:43.3

So the basic sentence template uses

0:49.3

in the same way that we've sometimes used

0:52.3

k'er with a k-fraase that has a subjunctive in it.

0:57.5

Let's practice this, and I'm going to throw in

0:59.8

all of the present tense conjugations of

1:02.5

Esperar for this quiz.

1:06.1

He hopes it's good.

1:12.3

Espera that's good. Espera that be good.

1:15.9

She hopes you go to the party.

1:25.1

She's expect that you go to the party. She's expect that you go to the fiesta.

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