It's time to learn the verb estar.

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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to start learning our second verb, and it's going to be really helpful, because

so far on the podcast, there have,

of course, been a lot of to be situations where you weren't allowed to use ser. All those situations

where is, were, and am didn't translate to es, eran, and so on. Well, it's time to learn some of the words that you can use in those situations.

The verb that we're about to learn, the name of the verb, the infinitive, is estar.

Estar is a translation of the English verb to be, but it's used specifically in the sense of how or where something is,

not what it is. So you use ser for what something is. Estar means where or how it is.

Of course, we can pretty easily think of all kinds of situations where you'd use estar,

because you'd use it in a lot of the places where we haven't been translating to be as ser.

But one of the easiest ways to use it is simply to refer to a place.

Check out this sentence template.

That is here.

Obviously, we're not using ser here because we're not saying what that is. We're saying where it is. So this would not be eso is here using a conjugation

of ser. Instead, it would be es Eso esta here.

So this is our first conjugation of estar, the translation of is, the third person singular,

is esta, spelled E-S-T-A with an accent mark.

Let's talk for a second about what's coming after the word is. We have the word here,

which is not a noun, it's a type of word that we call an adverb. In fact, as a general rule,

a conjugation of estar will never be directly followed by a noun, but it's very often followed by adverbs.

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