Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we'll learn the verb for sit in Spanish. The simple infinitive is centar.

But sentar doesn't

mean to sit or to sit down.

It actually means to seat,

as in to give someone a seat.

For example,

I'm going to seat them here.

Los voy to sit here.

So you'll use

Scentar when one person is seating another person.

But for simply sitting down or seating oneself,

you'll use Sintarsay, the pronominal version of this verb.

So you'll pick a reflexive object to go with it.

For example, I'm going to sit down here.

Me voy to sentar here.

The participle is sent to sited So for example, have you seated them? Las has sentado? I haven't even sat down yet. Iis-quiera me is sentado to-a-bye.

Let's go ahead and get some practice with

Scentar and SENTADO.

Remember to use a reflexive pronoun any time someone is simply sitting or sitting down,

meaning that they're seating themselves.

But we'll also throw in some examples of sentar used with a direct object.

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