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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn a pretty strange verb,

Acabar.

This verb literally means something like to finish or to wrap up. For example,

we're going to wrap up our class this week.

But akabar is not actually the most common way to translate Finnish or wrap up.

We'll learn the most common verb for that next week.

Instead, the most common use of the verb Akabar is something really idiomatic that happens

all the time in Spanish.

Check out this sentence.

My friend just arrived.

So this requires some explanation.

The Spanish is literally, my friend finishes of arriving.

But in English, we say that she just arrived. This is the most common meaning of akabar,

to say that someone just did something or that something just happened. Here's another example.

We just did this.

So the weirdest thing about this is that in English we're using the past tense plus the adverb just. The Spanish instead

uses the present tense plus an infinitive. And the word just isn't translated as an adverb. Instead,

it tells us to use the verb, akabar. Note that in English we use the

adverb just in quite a few ways, and it's important

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