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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're learning a Spanish verb that's very common,

but that doesn't have any simple translation into English. The verb is valer, which in general

means to be valuable or to be worth something. Here's a simple example. This car is worth a lot.

So here we're describing the car and what it's worth, specifically much, or a lot.

Here's a similar example, but a negative one.

What he said isn't worth anything.

What he said isn't worth anything. So this example was more abstract. What he said probably doesn't have a monetary value,

but we're still talking about what it is or isn't worth, perhaps socially.

Try it yourself in this next example.

He's worth much more than that.

El valet much more than that.

El valet much more than that.

Now let's talk about conjugating this verb.

For the most part, it's conjugated just like the verb,

Debert, except that there's an extra G in some conjugations,

particularly the first person indicative.

So, for example, I'm worth much more than that.

So the present tense forms are

Valgo, vales, valen, and valemos.

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