Today, the words por and para are finally going to make sense.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn por and para, two prepositions that tend to be very hard to master when learning Spanish as a second language.

But first, let's review what prepositions are.

These are words that always go before a noun of some type.

They're always in the preposition before food or any other noun or noun

phrase. We've already learned de and a. And before we work on por and para, let's warm up with a couple of

easier prepositions. The first one is con, which means with. For example,

I went to the store with my friend would be, I went to the store, con, my friend.

Now, since prepositions are all one category or one part of speech, we hypothetically

should be able to play the potato head game with these words.

For example, we could take the sentence, I went to the store with my friend, and change

it to I went de the store, a my friend, and change it to, I went de the store, ah, my friend.

You could even say, I went con the store, ah, my friend.

Of course, that's pretty silly, but you could do that grammatically.

Now let's talk about why prepositions are super fun. You're actually allowed to take

any random sentence and then add to it by throwing a preposition and a noun at the end. For example,

let's say our sentence is, they have a dog. We can throw a preposition and a noun at the end. They have a dog

con a tail. Or maybe they have a dog de Australia. But remember to use the does it make sense test as well.

For example, the preposition ah usually indicates movement

of some type, so it often doesn't really work when there's no action implied. If we tried to say

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