161: Tratar

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Let's learn the verb Tratar, the Spanish verb for "to try" or "to treat", including all of its commonly used conjugations. We'll also get lots of practice using Tratar and Tratarse in real sentence contexts.

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0:00.0	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.
0:09.0	I'm Timothy and this is Learncraft Spanish.
0:15.0	Today we're going to work on the verb,
0:17.0	Trattar, which roughly means to treat or to try.
0:22.1	This verb is conjugated exactly like
0:24.6	Ablar.
0:26.6	Here's an example where
0:28.0	Trattar means to treat.
0:31.5	They treat him well.
0:35.6	So as you can see, in this case,
0:40.9	Trattar simply takes a direct object and then we added an adverb at the end.
0:47.1	Try using Trattar to mean treat in this next example.
0:52.7	I have two sisters and I treat them well.
1:00.7	Tenggo dos
1:01.5	hermenas and
1:02.2	I trato well.
1:06.3	Tengo two
1:07.3	hermenas and
1:08.0	I'm trying.
1:14.0	When to trytas and I'm when tratar means to try,
1:16.6	you'll always follow it with the preposition and then an infinitive.
1:20.0	For example, you don't try to understand this.
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