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LearnCraft Spanish

197: Cambiar

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Let's explore a new regular Spanish verb, Cambiar, which means "to change". We'll get lots of practice using Cambiar and Cambiarse in a variety of real sentence contexts.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:09.7

I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

0:14.8

Today's verb is cambiar, which means to change.

0:19.7

This is clearly related to the word

0:21.5

cambio, which we learned as the noun for change,

0:25.1

as in,

0:26.0

no me gusto el campio.

0:29.0

Here's an example of

0:30.1

as a verb.

0:33.1

They might change it later.

0:36.9

Lo can't change it later. So here someone is doing the action upon something or changing it.

0:46.4

The verb, can be used this way.

0:50.0

We call this a transitive use, where there's a direct object being changed.

0:55.6

Here's another example.

0:57.8

I want to change it.

1:05.4

But just like the English verb to change, this verb can also be used intransitively to simply mean that something

1:14.0

changes without talking about who is changing it. For example, this might change later.

1:23.9

Let's go ahead and start conjugating this verb. It's conjugated exactly like the verb

1:34.2

Ablar. Here are a couple of examples. It changes every day.

1:42.6

Canvia todos los days.

1:46.7

You changed a lot of things here.

1:52.2

Canviast many things here.

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