ep #71: Querer: "want" and "love"
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Let's learn the Spanish verb Querer, which means "to want" and "to love". We'll practice using the unconjugated forms (querer and querido), along with all the present-tense forms (quiero, quiere, quieres, quieren, and queremos).
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| 0:00.0 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're going to start learning how to say want and wants in Spanish. |
| 0:20.0 | This is going to let us use a whole bunch of our sentence templates entirely in Spanish, |
| 0:25.0 | such as I want her to be here or they wanted me to do that. |
| 0:30.0 | So after this week, we'll be almost done relying on any spanglish. |
| 0:35.6 | The verb we're learning is |
| 0:37.6 | KERER, spelled |
| 0:39.3 | K-U-E-R-E-R. |
| 0:42.2 | This is most simply translated |
| 0:45.1 | as to want. |
| 0:47.4 | For example, |
| 0:48.9 | she isn't going to want that. |
| 0:54.0 | She not to care that. She not her no to the most frequent form of this verb is I want. This is spelled Q-U-I-E-R-O. For example, I want it now. |
| 1:13.6 | Lo Kiero |
| 1:15.6 | Of course, by default wanting something involves a direct object. |
| 1:22.6 | As another example, I want a house. I want a house. |
| 1:30.3 | But very often what you actually want is for an entire sentence to be the case. |
| 1:38.3 | For example, I want it to be here. |
| 1:43.3 | In these cases, you use a ke phrase with a subjunctive. |
| 1:48.2 | So this one would literally be phrased as, I want that it be here. |
| 1:57.2 | Some other common conjugations are |
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