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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn our first greetings and interjections in Spanish, including hello,

good morning, and thank you.

But first, we need to talk about a bear for a second.

There's something absolutely bizarre that this verb does, that no other verb does in Spanish.

It actually has a second meaning and an extra present

tense conjugation that we haven't learned yet. So far, we've only used Aber along with the

participles of other verbs. Here are some examples. I've been in this

place.

No, we've done that

so.

It has been.

Have you had

gone to a place.

In each case, the meaning of the sentence comes from the participle of some other verb.

The job of a bear is simply to put those other verbs in the past,

or in the past of the past, or in the past of the future.

But there's one form of a bear that can't be used before participles, the word I spelled

H-A-Y.

This word means there is or there are.

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