242: Olvidar, Despertar, Alegrar

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Let's learn the verbs Olvidar, which means "to forget", Despertar, which roughly means "to awaken", and Alegrar, which roughly means "to rejoice" or "to cheer up". We'll practice these new verbs in a variety of sentence contexts.

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0:00.0	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.
0:07.7	I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.
0:12.6	Today we're going to learn three new verbs, and we'll start with the verb,
0:16.7	Obidar, which means to forget.
0:20.1	For example, I always forget my keys.
0:29.6	Siempreolvido my keys.
0:37.4	Olvido my keys. Always olvido my keys. Olvidar is conjugated exactly like
0:40.5	Ablar, so go ahead and try this next example.
0:45.3	I forgot what he did what he said a year.
1:14.9	Now note that the pronominal version of this verb, Ovidarsay, is also very common.
1:18.1	It's often used to refer to forgetting about something.
1:23.4	For example, compare these two sentences.
1:27.2	He forgot his watch.
1:34.7	He forgot his watch.
1:37.4	He forgot about my watch.
1:47.0	So,
1:50.0	So,
1:52.0	So,
1:53.0	So,
1:54.0	So notice that we use
1:59.0	Olvidarse, and then the preposition
2:02.3	De. It's pretty easy to remember to do this when the English is
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