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LearnCraft Spanish

168: Blanco y negro

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How do you say "free" in Spanish? Is it "libre" or "gratis"? Today we'll explore a bunch of new adjectives in Spanish, including the words for "free", "incredible", "white", and "black".

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/168

Transcript

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0:00.0

When terminemes, it's incredible.

0:05.6

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:10.6

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:15.6

Today we're going to learn a few new adjectives, including our first colors.

0:20.7

To begin with, let's learn how to say

0:23.2

free. There are actually two words for this, Libre and Gratis. Libre means free, as in at liberty,

0:34.6

but gratis is used to mean that something is free of charge. Gratis tends to be used

0:40.7

with ser. Here's an example. The food here is free. The food here is gratis. Meanwhile, Libre can be used with either ser or estar.

0:57.5

When it's used with estar, it tends to refer to having free time.

1:02.0

For example, I'm not free until 3 o'clock.

1:07.8

But when Libre is used with ser, it refers to personal liberty or the freedom to make choices. For example, at last he was free to do what he wanted. For fin, it was free to do what he wanted. For fin, was librae to do what he

1:30.3

Kisierre.

1:32.3

Note the use of D after Libre in this context.

1:36.3

Libre de-a-ser.

1:38.3

Try it yourself in this next example.

1:41.3

Of course, he's free to do those things.

1:47.0

For suppesto, is librae to do those things.

1:54.0

For suppesto, is Libre to do those things.

2:09.6

Note that Libre will change to Libres for a plural noun, but gratis doesn't change.

2:16.6

Let's go ahead and get some practice translating free as either Libre or Gratis.

2:20.6

While we do, we'll also throw in some uses of our new verbs,

2:22.4

Seguer and Terminar.

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