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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn three new verbs that are quite simple.

We'll begin with Comprar, which means to buy. For example,

I want to buy myself

a new outfit.

So notice that we

used the contraction,

Comprarme. We're indicating

whom we're buying something for, namely myself.

If we were buying it for someone else, we might say something like this.

I bought her a present.

Now, it is possible to use

Comprar without a reflexive or indirect object,

but it's more common in Spanish than in English

to specify who you're buying something for.

And that's probably because it's so easy,

it just requires throwing in one tiny little extra syllable. So, for

example, let's say you want to say, I bought three boxes. In Spanish, this could be either

compre tres caches or me compre three caches. The extra me is very easy to add. Whereas in English, there's a huge difference between

I bought three boxes and I bought myself three boxes. The word myself is a mouthful in English and

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