243: Haberlo, Haberte, Haberme
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
4.9 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Why does Spanish sometimes use pronoun contractions with Haber? Let's learn how to use contractions like haberlo and haberte. We'll get lots of practice with these contractions in real sentence contexts.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for Aberlo Echo. |
| 0:04.0 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:13.7 | Today we're going to dive into some interesting grammatical things that we haven't really explored yet. |
| 0:19.0 | In particular, there's one sentence structure that uses |
| 0:22.7 | A-Ber that's impossible to form with our existing vocabulary. To show you how this works, let's start |
| 0:30.1 | with this basic sentence. We ran after eating. |
| 0:37.0 | Corrimos |
| 0:37.6 | de'comer. |
| 0:40.3 | So here we're applying the preposition |
| 0:44.3 | to the infinitive |
| 0:46.3 | Comer. |
| 0:47.3 | We can replace |
| 0:48.3 | Comer with pretty much any other |
| 0:50.3 | infinitive. |
| 0:51.3 | For example, Corrim, next, let's revisit how object pronouns work. |
| 1:14.5 | We'll stick with the context where we did something after eating. |
| 1:16.6 | So let's talk about the verb, comer. |
| 1:21.4 | This verb is sometimes used with the object pronouns lo and la. |
| 1:31.0 | So, for example, I ate it yesterday might be either lo comie a year or la comie ayer, depending on if we're referencing a masculine or a feminine noun. |
| 1:34.6 | For now, let's assume that there's no named noun, so we'll just stick with lo by default. |
| 1:40.9 | So this would be... |
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