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LearnCraft Spanish

121: Necesitar and Mirar

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference between Mirar and Ver? And how do you know whether to use Necesitar, Deber, or Tener Que? Let's practice these verbs in real Spanish sentences.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/121

 

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0:00.0

Necessitas mirar this.

0:04.9

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

0:09.9

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:14.8

Today we're going to work on two new verbs that are very easy to learn.

0:19.0

Let's start with Necessi-Tar, which means to need.

0:24.8

As you can probably tell, it's related to the English word necessity. Here's a simple example.

0:31.9

You're going to need this.

0:45.2

This This infinitive is a bit of a mouthful with four syllables,

0:48.3

but if you remember to stress the last syllable,

0:51.6

tar, you should be able to handle it.

0:53.1

Necessi tar.

1:00.0

It's almost like saying necessity, but then putting a strong tar at the end. Try it yourself in this next example.

1:03.0

I'm going to need your help.

1:09.0

I'm going to need your help. I'm going to necessitate your help.

1:13.6

I need to need your help.

1:17.6

To conjugate this in the present tense, we have to change the stress for most of these forms.

1:25.6

This verb is conjugated just like

1:28.1

Ablar, and we did the same thing with that verb. Remember that the stress

1:32.6

moved to the second to last syllable for the forms

1:36.3

Ablo, Abla, Ablas, and Ablan. So the corresponding present tense

1:43.7

forms of Necessitar are Necessito, Necessita,

1:50.3

Necessitas, and Necessitan. And then, of course, there's Necessimamos.

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