231: Jurar, Desear
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
4.9 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Why is the verb Desear, which means "to wish", more common in Spanish than in English? Let's learn how to use Desear, and we'll also talk about the frequently-used verb Jurar.
Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/231.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:13.8 | Today we're going to learn two verbs that tend to take both direct and indirect objects. |
| 0:19.7 | Some verbs in Spanish tend to take only direct objects, for example, |
| 0:24.2 | KERER and KREER. |
| 0:26.4 | You want something or you believe something, but you don't want something to a person, |
| 0:31.7 | or believe something to a person. |
| 0:34.1 | That doesn't make sense. |
| 0:36.0 | There are other verbs that tend to take only indirect objects, |
| 0:40.6 | for example, importar and gustar. Something is important to someone or pleasing to someone, |
| 0:49.2 | but these verbs never take a direct object. Other verbs tend to take both direct and indirect objects. |
| 0:57.0 | The most common are, |
| 0:59.0 | Acer, Desir, and D'ar. You can do something for someone, you can say something to someone, |
| 1:08.0 | and you can give something to someone. |
| 1:12.3 | To review how to do this, let's get some practice with a few sentences that involve both direct and indirect objects. |
| 1:21.4 | That's why I did her a favor. |
| 1:28.6 | For that I did a favor. I told it to do you in the favor. |
| 1:38.2 | I told it to you in the living room. |
| 1:45.9 | To do it in the living room. They gave it in the cell. |
| 1:50.5 | They gave it to me without a problem. |
| 2:02.5 | Me they did it without a problem. Melodieron |
| 2:03.2 | sin problem. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Timothy Moser, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Timothy Moser and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

