181: Disculpar, Ayudar, Significar
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Let's learn the verbs Disculpar, Ayudar, and Significar, including all of their commonly used conjugations. We'll also get lots of practice using all these verbs in real sentence contexts.
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| 0:00.0 | What signific this? |
| 0:03.0 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're going to learn three new verbs. |
| 0:18.0 | That may seem like a lot, but all of these verbs are pretty easy to use, |
| 0:22.4 | and they're all conjugated exactly like Ablar. Let's begin with significar, which means to mean. |
| 0:31.4 | You'll use this any time you say that something means something. Here's an example. This word means problem. |
| 0:40.3 | This is a problem. |
| 0:43.3 | This is a problem. |
| 0:46.3 | Here's another way this word is used. |
| 0:50.3 | This situation means we can't eat yet. This situation means we can't eat yet. |
| 0:55.0 | This situation signific that we can't eat even. |
| 1:00.0 | So in the first sentence we were referring to what a word means, |
| 1:07.0 | and in the second sentence we talked about what an entire situation means for us. |
| 1:12.7 | In both cases, we used the conjugation Significa, which is the most common by far. |
| 1:20.7 | In fact, not many other forms are really ever used. For example, you'll almost never encounter significamos, because when would |
| 1:32.6 | you ever say something like, we mean something? Well, in English, we sometimes say things like this. |
| 1:41.3 | What we mean to say is, however, in Spanish, you wouldn't use the verb to mean that way. |
| 1:51.6 | You'd instead use kare and then, decir. So in this case, we'd say, |
| 1:58.1 | lo queernes decile is. |
| 2:02.5 | So the verb significar doesn't mean meaning to say something. Instead, it's used |
| 2:09.7 | specifically to reference that something has a particular meaning. So in Spanish, in general, |
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