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Speaker 1: Okalo Marco, you're Latino Spanish teacher. If you've been learning
Speaker 1: Spanish for a while, you probably heard about regular, irregular,
Speaker 1: and reflexive verbs. But let's be honest, those words don't
Speaker 1: mean much at first, So in this episode you learn
Speaker 1: what they actually do by comparing them to superheroes. Are
Speaker 1: you ready for this? Mas? So? Why verbs? Verbs? I
Speaker 1: like learning to stram the right course on a guitar,
Speaker 1: they said, the rhythm and the mode of the conversation.
Speaker 1: They describe actions. Without them, nothing happens. In Spanish, all
Speaker 1: verbs have one of the following three endings are like
Speaker 1: by lard to dance, er like comer to eat, and
Speaker 1: her like biber to live. These are called infinitives, the
Speaker 1: base form without conjugation. When you hear by lard, you
Speaker 1: know it means to dance, but you don't know who
Speaker 1: is dancing. So by lard is the infinitivo, the base
Speaker 1: form with no conjugation. Now, when someone is doing the action,
Speaker 1: we need to conjugate the verb undepending on how they're conjugated.
Speaker 1: Bursts fall into three categories, regular, irregular, and reflexive. So
Speaker 1: let's bring in the superheroes to explain how each one works.
Speaker 1: Let's start with regular verbs. Captain America Steve Rodgers. The
Speaker 1: cap follows the rules. He has clear values and a
Speaker 1: steady routine. He is predictable, and regular verbs are just
Speaker 1: like that. They follow a consistent pattern, so you always
Speaker 1: know what to expect from them. Let's take trabaja to
Speaker 1: work and buy lad to dance as examples. Both are
Speaker 1: regular verbs ending in are trabahar by lad. When they
Speaker 1: are conjugated with you I, they become trabajo by law,
Speaker 1: I work, I dance with two you travajas bilas you work,
Speaker 1: you dance, so no surprises in the conjugation, same pattern.
Speaker 1: Trabajo by law trabajas bilass. Just like the cap, predictable
Speaker 1: and strong. Let's continue with the irregular verbs. The hug
Speaker 1: the hawk is powerful but unpredictable. You never know what's coming.
Speaker 1: Irregular verbs are the same. They break the rules and
Speaker 1: don't follow a set pattern. Take for example, the verb
Speaker 1: is start to be a star has the same ending
Speaker 1: as trava hard and by lard. Trava hard and by
Speaker 1: lar are regular verbs, as we saw in the previous section,
Speaker 1: So when conjugated with you, they have the same engine,
Speaker 1: your travajo, your bilow. For a start following the same pattern,
Speaker 1: it would be Joe esto right, but no, it's a
Speaker 1: sty I am Joe a toy. There's no way you
Speaker 1: could predict that. Same with hugar to play. If it
Speaker 1: was like Captain America, it would be your hugo, but no,
Speaker 1: it's your huego. So irregular verbs don't play by the rules.
Speaker 1: You'll need a little bit more time to tame them,
Speaker 1: just like the Hawk. And finally, reflexive verbs Tony Stark
Speaker 1: iron man. Tony Stark can be regular but sometimes impredictable,
Speaker 1: but what makes him ironman is the suit. Captain America
Speaker 1: will still have his superpowers without the suit, and same
Speaker 1: with the Hawk, but Tony Stark cannot get into action
Speaker 1: without the suit. Reflexive verbs also wear a suit, the
Speaker 1: little particle say at the end, and they need it
Speaker 1: all the time to function properly. Take for example, the
Speaker 1: verb do charsee to shower. The base verve is do tar,
Speaker 1: But the say at the end is essential to charts.
Speaker 1: That say at the end is the suit. So when
Speaker 1: you conjugate it, you need to add the suit in
Speaker 1: some way with you is your may ducho? With two
Speaker 1: is do they doutas they say at the end becomes
Speaker 1: may they et cetera, depending on the person. But it
Speaker 1: has to be present somewhere, and that say shows that
Speaker 1: the action happens to yourself. I take a shower in
Speaker 1: Spanish is not your ducho, but may doucho. So with
Speaker 1: no suit in the sentence, without the reflexive particle, it's incomplete,
Speaker 1: just like the Aroman without the armor, something is missing.
Speaker 1: So let's recap. Regular verbs are like Captain America. They
Speaker 1: follow the rules. Irregular verbs are like the Hulk, powerful
Speaker 1: but unpredictable, and reflexive verbs are like Aroman. They always
Speaker 1: wear a suit. In the case of reflexives, the particle
Speaker 1: say and does all for today. Gracias scuta speaking Spanish
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