Let's work on three words that make up more than 8% of Spanish.

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're learning three super important words that are key to thinking in Spanish.

But what makes these particular words so important?

Remember that in episode two, I told you that there are 20 words that account for 30% of all words ever spoken in Spanish.

What do we mean by that? Well, some words are much more important

than others. For example, the word blue is used on average maybe once or twice a week by the average

person. Imagine that you're on that walking tour having that conversation with a new Spanish-speaking

friend. There's a small chance that you'd need the word for blue, but it's not the most

important contingency to plan for. However, the word ke, which we just learned yesterday,

is used dozens of times in every Spanish conversation. There's no way you could have that conversation without using and hearing the word

k'i in all kinds of different ways.

In fact, a statistical analysis of spoken Spanish based on subtitles concluded that the word

kee accounts for 3.29% of all words ever spoken.

In other words, ke occurs once out of every 31 words spoken in Spanish.

It's everywhere, but it's not alone.

Another word that comes really close statistically is the word

de, which roughly means of or from. This word also accounts for more than 3% of the Spanish language

all by itself. However, dee belongs to another part of speech that we haven't learned yet.

It's not a noun because it's not interchangeable with the word food, and it's not a verb. It's not interchangeable with

eat. And it's not a conjunction because you can't use it to join two sentences together.

Instead, de is a preposition.

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