191: Contar
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Spanish verb Contar is very frequently used, and it means more than one thing. Let's learn how to talk about counting, and about telling stories, in Spanish.
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| 0:00.0 | Quenta conmigo. |
| 0:03.9 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:13.8 | Today we're going to explore the verb, |
| 0:16.0 | which means to count. |
| 0:19.4 | For example, he's very young and doesn't know how to count. |
| 0:27.8 | This verb can be used with direct objects. |
| 0:36.5 | For example, could you count the boxes? |
| 0:42.8 | Could you count the cajas? |
| 0:48.1 | Remember that when the named direct object is a person or a group of people, you'll put |
| 0:53.1 | an extra a before the named person. |
| 0:57.0 | For example, I didn't count the people at the party. |
| 1:05.0 | No contea the person in the fiesta. |
| 1:10.0 | And then note that sometimes in English we use the verb count when what we mean is that something or someone is included in a group. |
| 1:20.7 | For example, no, those two houses don't count. |
| 1:26.4 | Spanish does the exact same thing. |
| 1:28.3 | So this would be |
| 1:30.3 | No, |
| 1:33.3 | Esas dos casas no quentan. |
| 1:36.3 | Notice that instead of |
| 1:39.3 | contan, the conjugation is |
| 1:42.3 | Qantan. |
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