82: Decir in the past
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Let's conjugate Decir in the past, as well as learn Decir's imperatives, so that we can say things like "I said it", "she will say something", and "tell him this".
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| 0:00.0 | Asecia, join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:14.3 | Let's learn how to conjugate Desir in the past, future, |
| 0:18.8 | subjunctive, and imperative, so that we can use it to say things like, |
| 0:23.1 | I said it, she will say something, and tell him this. |
| 0:29.7 | The most common way to put D'esir in the past is with the prederate. |
| 0:35.3 | That's because saying something is typically a one-time event, not an ongoing thing. |
| 0:41.3 | The most common predate conjugation is Dijo, which is the word for he, she, or Ustead said. |
| 0:50.1 | For example, she said something when we were at home. |
| 0:57.0 | She did something. For example, she said something when we were at home. This word, Dijo, is a bit weird. It's spelled D-I-J-O with this unexpected J in the middle. The word for I-said is similar. |
| 1:16.0 | It's Bige, spelled D-I-J-E. For example, I told her that. |
| 1:26.6 | Note that I'll Le Dijes Ezo |
| 1:27.6 | Note that although these words |
| 1:32.7 | Dijo and Dije are pretty irregular |
| 1:36.2 | they follow a similar pattern to what we've seen |
| 1:39.3 | in Acer with Iso and Ise |
| 1:42.7 | and in Poder with Pudo and Pude. |
| 1:48.3 | Let's practice this a bit. |
| 1:50.8 | I told him what they had told me that day. |
| 2:00.4 | He did what they had been said that day. |
| 2:07.7 | I didn't want to do it and he told it to his brother. |
| 2:22.3 | No, I wanted to his brother. |
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