39: Ya vs ahora
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
How do you say "now" in Spanish? Today we'll explore a bunch of Spanish adverbs, including the words "ahora" and "ya", the two different ways you can say "now". We'll also talk about some of the many ways "ya" can be translated into English.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, finally, we get to say now in Spanish. |
| 0:07.3 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish. |
| 0:17.2 | Today we're going to talk a lot about adverbs. |
| 0:20.8 | We've already learned no, the most common |
| 0:23.9 | adverb in Spanish, and we've practiced using it when it means not. This word can also mean |
| 0:30.2 | simply no all by itself, for example, in answer to a yes-no question. For example, let's say I'm |
| 0:37.1 | asking you if some people are |
| 0:38.7 | present. The following sentence answers the question using both versions of no. |
| 0:46.2 | No. Ejjas not stand. |
| 0:51.1 | This means no, they are not present. |
| 0:55.4 | So here's how you would say the opposite. |
| 1:00.3 | The word see, yes. |
| 1:04.7 | The word see means yes. |
| 1:08.0 | This sounds exactly like the word see that we've learned previously, which means |
| 1:12.1 | if, but this one is spelled with an accent mark over the letter I. Now this word doesn't just |
| 1:19.7 | mean yes. It can also be used in the middle of positive statements in the exact same way |
| 1:26.5 | that we've been using no to mean not. |
| 1:30.0 | Here's an example of how. We can take the sentence, |
| 1:33.7 | Eyes no-estan, and we can change it to, |
| 1:38.0 | Eyes siestan. Now, why would you do that? |
| 1:43.5 | In English, we don't randomly put the word yes in the middle of a sentence, like they yes are present. |
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