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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

The Spanish verb,

Pairder means to lose.

Just like in English, this can refer to losing some sort of competition

or to losing an object. Here are a couple of examples that use the infinitive

Perdder and the participle, Perdido. I don't like this game. I know I'm going to lose.

No me

I'm going to play. I'm not

I'm going to lose. Yikes. I've lost my phone.

I, I've heard my phone. I, have

I've perided my telephone.

So in general, this verb

likes to take direct objects.

Here's another situation in which

Perder takes a direct object.

I don't want to lose this opportunity.

No I want to to lose this opportunity. No, I want to lose this opportunity.

But this is a bit weird in English because normally we don't talk about losing an opportunity.

Instead, we refer to missing an opportunity. But the English verb to miss

means more than one thing. It can mean to miss as in to be sad or nostalgic about the absence

of something. Or it can mean to miss as in to let something pass you by such as an opportunity.

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