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Let's get lots of quizzing practice with Ser and Estar, in every commonly used tense and mood! We'll also learn the prepositions del and al.
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LearnCraft Spanish — 35: Practicing Ser and Estar, in all tenses. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Let's polish CER and ESTHAR. Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. Today we're going to use a huge quiz to practice CER and ESTHAR, including every commonly used tense and mood from the imperfect to the subjunctive to the conditional. But first, I'd like to point something out about the prepositions de and a. So far, we've been practicing putting these before feminine nouns, such as de la chica or a la casa. But we've intentionally avoided putting them before the word lugar, which is a masculine noun. So for example, we haven't practiced saying to the place or from the place. The thing is, you might think that to say from the place, you should say de el lugar.
But in Spanish, the words de and el blend together into one new word, del spelled D-E-L. Let's practice with a couple of examples. We went from the place to the house. We went from the place to the house. We went from the place to the house. We're at the guy's house. We're at the guy's house. We're at the guy's house. This also happens with a el or to the. So for example, to the place is not a el lugar. It's al lugar.
This word is spelled A-L-L. And in fact, this isn't optional. It's a rule. You're not allowed to say de el as separate words or a el as separate words. They're always blended together like this. Of course, this only happens in cases where you would otherwise use el or the. But we should practice this. Whenever you use a or de right before el, you have to change it to al or del. Let's practice with a few more examples. I want to go to the place. I want to go al lugar. They have gone from the place to the house.
They have gone del lugar a la casa. I said that to the guy. I said eso al chico. Before we get to our quiz, there's one example that I need to explain in some detail. In today's quiz, you're going to see the sentence our friend masculine or our friend feminine would be here. Of course, we'll start this sentence with nuestra amigo o nuestra amiga. And then you would expect esta día aquí using the singular conjugation esta día, because only one of them is going to do the action. But for some reason, in Spanish, when you say that one person or another person is going to do something,
you usually use a plural verb form afterwards. That's weird for English, because after all, only one of them is going to do it. But in Spanish, it's natural to use plural panda conjugations in these situations instead of singular conjugations. So we have our friend masculine or our friend feminine would be here. Nuestro amigo o nuestra amiga estarían aquí. Alright, now it's time for our big quiz to practice all the things we've been working on recently. Watch for a few examples of del and al as we go through this. This thing has been here, but that one hasn't.
Esta cosa has estado aquí, pero esa no. The things that you had that day were from the guy. Las cosas que you had ese día era del chico. It would be good, but you aren't where I was. Sería bueno, pero no estás donde estuve.
In the next one, the friend is masculine. That day, she was at that place with her friend. Ese día estuvo en ese lugar con su amigo. The days when we are here are good, but that day won't be. Los días cuando estamos aquí son buenos, pero ese día no lo será. Our friend masculine or our friend feminine would be here.
Nuestro amigo o nuestra amiga estarían aquí. This is the boys. I didn't go to the place. No, I went al lugar. I'll be a good guy with your friends.
I would be in this house with this boy. Estaría en esta casa con este chico. It isn't the boys, but he is going to his house. No es del chico, pero he is going a su casa. No es del chico, pero va a ir a su casa. In the next one, the person you're talking to is masculine. You aren't being good or you would be here. No está siendo bueno o estarías aquí.
In the next one, the boys friends are masculine and the girls friends are feminine. That boy has his friends and that girl has her friends. Este chico has sus amigos y esa chica has sus amigas. If that thing is here, that boy will be here.
My friends and I would be in that place. Mis amigos y yo estaríamos en ese lugar. We don't want to go to the place where you are. No, we want to go al lugar donde tú estás. In the next one, this one is masculine. She wouldn't be with this one. No estaría con este. No estaría con este. In the next one, this one is masculine. This one hasn't been my best work.
Este no ha sido mi best work. In the next one, the friend is masculine. It would be good if your friend came from Mexico. Sería bueno si tu amigo came de México. In the next one, store is feminine. I'm going from the store to the house. I'm going de la store a la casa.
For access to the flashcards so that you can practice with all of this, go to lcspodcast.com slash 35. This show is brought to you by LearnCraftSpanish.com. The Spanish voice in this episode was our coach, Jimena Lama Rondón. Our music was provided by the Seattle Marimba quartet. And I'm Timothy, encouraging you to do the hard work of learning Spanish. Acquiring a second language is one of the most fulfilling things you can do. So start your fluency journey today at lcspodcast.com.
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