216: Empezar and Probar

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference between Probar and Tratar? And how do you say "start" in Spanish? Let's explore these essential Spanish verbs. We'll get lots of spoken practice in all of the common forms of Empezar and Probar.

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0:00.0	Empesemos.
0:03.2	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.
0:08.2	I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.
0:13.1	Today we're going to learn two new verbs in Spanish, and we'll start with the verb
0:17.3	Empezar, which means to start.
0:21.3	This is spelled
0:22.2	E-M-P-E-Z-A-R.
0:26.4	Empez-A-R.
0:28.3	So, for example,
0:29.8	I want to start with this one.
0:37.3	I'm going to start with this one. This word can be used in pretty much any way that the English words start or begin can be used.
0:50.1	Here are a couple more examples.
0:53.9	Tell us your name before starting.
1:02.0	Dinos your name
1:03.0	before to start.
1:09.9	The test started this morning.
1:18.1	The Prova Empezo this morning.
1:26.5	Now let's talk about how this verb is conjugated.
1:30.2	In general, it's conjugated like Ablar, but it also has a stem change when the second syllable is stressed.
1:38.7	Instead of pés, it becomes pies.
1:43.1	So here are some examples.
1:45.9	I start my days with coffee.
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