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Today we're going to learn three new verbs, and we'll start with sonar, which means to sound.

Just like the English verb, you'll use this to describe how something

sounds. For example, that might sound better.

To say that something sounds good, you'll use bien, literally saying that it sounds well.

For example, that has to sound good, right?

And just like in English, we might be referring to how something literally sounds referring to a noise that it makes, but it can also be figurative.

For example, I'll see you there at seven. Does that sound good to you?

Te vera at y'all at 7. That's so it sound good to you? Te vera at y'a at 7. That's what you

So there are a couple of things to notice here.

First of all, the conjugation here was

Suenah instead of Sona.

This verb has a stem change,

so any time the first syllable is stressed, it sounds like swen instead of son.

And then second, note that in Spanish we're more likely to use perecer in situations like this.

Rather than, eso te swena bien, literally does that sound good to you,

you're a bit more likely to hear,

Eso te parese bien, literally, does that seem good to you?

But sonar is occasionally used like this as well,

so that's how we'll translate sound as opposed to seem.

Also note that one reason sonar is used so frequently in Spanish is because it's used in many

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