Lesson 14: Sé, el, ella, yo, tengo que and Poner

Question 1

what is the word for ‘know’ in spanish

Answer 1

Saber

Question 2

what does ‘saber’ mean

Answer 2

I know

Question 3

what is ‘saber’ in the ‘I’ form

Answer 3

sé

this is difficult to hear and as saying “I know” can be important in a conversation you find many Spanish people say ‘lo sé - “I know it”.

Sé
I know
No sé
I don’t know
Lo sé
I know it

Question 4

“I don’t know what he wants”

write in spanish

Answer 4

No sé que quiere

No sé que él quiere
No sé que quiere él

Second two lines, it’s flexible where you put ‘he, she, it, we, they and I ‘

Question 5

how to say ‘he’

Answer 5

Él

Question 6

he, she, it, we, they and I

why is it not used that often?

Answer 6

they aren’t used that often. We know who we are talking about because of the form of the verb and the context.

But we won’t always have context and/or sometimes we want to emphasise who or what we are talking about.

Where you put ‘___’ is pretty flexible.

Question 7

how do you say ‘she’

Answer 7

Ella- She

Ella ve
She sees

Ella tiene
She has

Question 8

In any one sentence we might use I/he/she to emphasis a point.

“I don’t want to invite him but she does”.

write it in spanish

Answer 8

No quiero invitarlo per ella sí

ella sí which literally means “she yes” - ‘Sí’ is “yes”

You might have noticed that the Spanish for “if” (‘si’) is very similar to the Spanish for “yes” (‘sí’). Squint your eyes and you’ll see the difference in the written word is an accent on the ‘i’ for “Yes” but there is no way to hear the difference when it is spoken until your at native speaker level!

Question 9

how to say ‘I’

Answer 9

Yo

Question 10

Salgo a comer

what does this mean

Answer 10

Note again the ‘a’ in the sentence. ‘Comer’ already means “to eat” so we shouldn’t need it but as ‘saler’ is a verb of movement (and we don’t need to learn this, we just need to think about the action of the verb) we need the extra ‘a’.

Answer 11

d

Question 12

what does ‘tengo que’ mean

Answer 12

I have to

Question 13

How to say ‘I have to’

Answer 13

Tengo que

Question 14

Tengo que= I have to

give examples of using this

Answer 14

Tengo que comer
I have to eat

Tengo que hacerlo
I have to do it

Lo tengo que hacer
I have to do it

Tengo que verla
I have to see her

La tengo que ver
I have to see her

Question 15

verbs in a ‘go’ form means that the ‘I’ form is irregnuar but the rest of the verbs are regular

what are some other examples of these

Answer 15

• tengo
• vengo
• salgo

Question 16

Discovering words via ‘Tengo’

‘to form’ ‘tener’ pops up in all sorts of other words.

what are some examples of these

Answer 16

all the English versions end in ‘tain’ while all the Spanish versions end in ‘tener’.

Contener
To contain

Obtener
To obtain

Sostener
To sustain

Mantener
To maintain

Entretener
To entertain

Question 17

Discovering words via ‘Pongo’

‘to form’ ‘Poner’
what are some examples of these

Answer 17

whenever you see an English verb that ends ‘pose’ you can replace it with ‘poner’ to get the Spanish verb.

Componer
To compose

Suponer
To suppose

Supongo
I suppose

Supongo que sí
I suppose so

Imponer
To impose

Exponer
Expose

Oponer
To oppose

Lo Opongo
I oppose it

Question 18

what does ‘debo’ mean

Answer 18

I must

Question 19

tengo que’ (I have to) and ‘debo’ (I must).

what’s the difference

Answer 19

The difference is the same as in English. “Must” has more urgency than “have to”.

Tengo que comer ahora
I have to eat now

Debo comer
I must eat

Question 20

I’m going to try to eat later

what’s it in spanish

Answer 20

Voy a intentar comer más tarde