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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn how to say can and can't in Spanish.

By the end of this episode, you'll be able to say things like,

he can't have that, and we can do this. To kick this off, let's talk for a minute about auxiliary

verbs in English. Here's a very simple three-word sentence. They have that. In English, there are a bunch of different words that we can

add before have to change the meaning. These words include will, would, and can. So we can change this

sentence to they will have that.

They would have that.

They can have that.

Now, Spanish is a bit different.

We've learned that in Spanish, you don't add a word to change have into will have.

You instead change the verb itself. So,

Ejos Tienin'esso turns into, Ejjos tendran eso. In other words, there's no word for will

in Spanish. It's not its own verb. And it's the same with would. Instead of adding the word

would, like we do in English, we simply change the way the verb is conjugated.

They just tenden-ezo changes to,

Theyjos tendrian-eso. However, there is a verb for can. In fact, it's one of the most commonly used verbs in Spanish,

and it has as many conjugations as any other verb. The name of the verb is Poder, spelled P-O-D-E-R.

Generally, you'll use a conjugation of Poder before the infinitive of another verb.

The most common conjugation is Puedo, which is the first person, meaning I I can or I am able.

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