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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn our last essential nouns related to time.

Let's begin with the word for beginning, which is principle.

For example, the beginning was better than the ending.

The principle was better than the final.

Here's another example.

At the beginning, something was wrong.

At the beginning, something was mal. Note that to say at the beginning, we use al, rather than in el.

Remember that when we're talking about at a specific time, we use a rather than en.

Our next word is rato, which means while or a little while.

For example, we sat down a little while.

We sat down a little while. Of course we've already been using the word tempo to mean while.

This same sentence could simply have been,

nos sentamos a time. But rato is a very common synonym specifically to mean while or little while.

In our quizzing, you can expect rato when we use the phrase little while.

Next, our word for season, as in the seasons of the year, is estacion.

For example, they don't sell that. It's the wrong season.

No venden that. It's the estacion equivocada.

Of course, we've already learned that estacion means station, but it also has this entirely different meaning.

Let's practice Principio, Rato, and Estacion.

At the beginning, it suited him well.

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