146: Sentir and Sentirse

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today we'll learn the verb Sentir, which is how you say "feel" in Spanish. We'll also explore Sentirse and how it is different from Sentir, and we'll get lots of spoken practice in real sentence contexts. Practice along out loud!

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0:00.0	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.
0:08.5	I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.
0:13.7	Let's learn the Spanish verb for feeling, so that we can say things like,
0:18.3	did you feel that? And I feel happy.
0:22.8	The infinitive is
0:24.5	Sentir.
0:26.4	So, for example,
0:28.0	am I going to feel something?
0:32.3	Voy to sendir algo?
0:36.2	The participle is exactly what you would expect.
0:39.3	Sentido.
0:40.3	So, for example, I haven't felt it in a long time.
0:46.3	No I've seen it in much time.
0:51.3	And then the gerund is slightly irregular. It's
0:58.0	Sintyendo. So we would expect it to be sentiento, which is simply
1:04.1	Sintier, but replacing the R with endo. But for some reason, the E in the stem gets changed to I. So we have
1:14.6	Sintyendo. For example, is it just me or are you feeling that?
1:24.6	So is only I or is thatintyendo Eso?
1:31.4	Notice that in the first half of the sentence,
1:34.6	to say, is it just me, we say,
1:36.9	Soi solo I.
1:39.4	Literally, am I just I?
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