207: Casar vs Casarse, Amar vs Querer
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How do you say "marry" in Spanish? And why does Spanish have two verbs that mean "to love"? Today we'll explore the verb Casarse, as well as Amar, and what the difference is between Amar and Querer. We'll also get lots of spoken practice using both Casarse and Amar in real sentence contexts.
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| 0:00.0 | Seamen much. |
| 0:04.4 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish. |
| 0:14.2 | Today we're going to learn the Spanish verb for To Get Married. |
| 0:18.6 | But first, let's revisit how to talk about loving in Spanish. |
| 0:23.6 | We already know that the verb, |
| 0:25.4 | KERER can mean both to want and to love. |
| 0:29.8 | For example, I love her a lot. |
| 0:34.9 | La Kiero Much. |
| 0:40.3 | But there's actually another verb, Amar, that specifically means to love. |
| 0:45.3 | So that same sentence could be |
| 0:48.3 | La Ammo much. |
| 0:59.0 | So what's the difference between la quiro and la amo? Well, when you use kare to mean love, the sense might be a little bit lighter or more casual. |
| 1:07.0 | Amar is almost always a bit more intense and serious. |
| 1:12.3 | So, KER basically works in all situations, but Amar works in more specific situations, like |
| 1:19.6 | between lovers or close family members. |
| 1:23.1 | For the purposes of today's quizzing, we'll only use Amar, not Kare. |
| 1:29.8 | Let's go ahead and get some quizzing practice with a whole bunch of different uses of this verb. |
| 1:35.2 | It's conjugated exactly like Ablar, so you should be able to predict the Spanish. |
| 1:41.8 | You love her, but she doesn't love you. |
| 1:45.0 | They love you. |
| 1:47.0 | They love each other. |
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