Casi termino.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

The Spanish verb, terminar, means to finish or to end up.

Of course, we already learned the verb,

Acabar, which can mean to finish,

but it more often means to have just done something.

Terminar is a more common term for finishing.

Here are a couple of simple examples

using the infinitive

Terminar and the participle terminado.

When are you going to finish that?

When do you go to terminar that?

Have they finished the work? Have they finished the work?

In terminated the work?

In both of these cases,

Terminar is simply taking a direct object.

Try it yourself in this next example.

She hasn't finished it, but she's going to finish it.

No, it has to terminado, but it will to finish it.

When you want to finish it... No it has terminated, but it will to terminar.

When you want to talk about finishing doing something, you'll use terminar and then

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