67: How to say "could" in Spanish

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Let's learn the rest of the essential conjugations of Poder, including the past tense, the future tense, and the subjunctive, so that we can say "was able", "will be able", "would be able", and "could".

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0:00.0	Could we? Yeah, we could.
0:05.7	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.
0:15.8	Today we're going to learn the rest of the essential conjugations of Poder, our verb for
0:20.6	can or to be able.
0:23.9	The new forms that we learn will allow us to say things like, we could do it, you will be able
0:30.7	to have that, and they weren't able to be there. To begin with, let's learn the imperfect past tense.
0:40.8	The basic form is Podia, which is very much like Teners Tenia and Acer's Asia. So we have
0:50.6	Podia, Podias, Podian, and Podiamos.
0:56.5	Let's practice these.
0:58.9	You were always able to do this.
1:06.4	Sienpre podias
1:08.3	to do this.
1:12.0	Sienpre could do this. She wasn't able to have those things.
1:24.6	No, I could have those things.
1:27.3	No, could have those things no
1:30.8	could
1:31.4	have
1:31.7	those
1:32.3	things
1:32.8	in the next
1:36.2	one
1:36.4	use a formal voice
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