All About Spanish Verbs

Learn the most common uses of the most essential Spanish verbs through practical examples.

What is All About Spanish Verbs?  

All About Spanish Verbs is a set of conversational audio lessons that dives deep into the multiple meanings and uses of common verbs, the ones native speakers use the most.

You’ll learn to speak real Spanish, the way native speakers do, without getting buried in confusing grammar rules.

Textbooks teach you the basics and stop there. But in real life verbs have multiple meanings, and this collection of conversational audios reveals the everyday uses that you hear from native speakers.

In fact, many essential Spanish verbs go untaught, leaving you to stumble across them by chance. You can’t understand spoken Spanish or express yourself if you don’t know the verbs real people use – and how they use them.

With All About Spanish Verbs, you focus on the most-used verbs, build fluency, understand more, say more and learn faster.

You’ll learn by hearing natural, everyday sentences in real world contexts that reflect how native speakers actually talk.

Real sentences. Real Spanish. Learn like you’re actually in the conversation.

Improve your Conversational Spanish by learning how to use these Essential Spanish verbs

Alcanzar is rarely talked about, but native speakers use it all the time.  Learn 5 everyday uses of this verb.

  1. To reach or to pass something.
  2. To reach something in a figurative sense.
  3. To talk about having or not having enough of something.
  4. To talk about how much time you have.
  5. To manage to or be able to.

Bajar seems simple enough on the surface but it actually has more than eight different uses.

  1. To talk about getting off or out of something, like a vehicle
  2. To talk about losing weight.
  3. To turn something down, lower the volume or lower your voice.
  4. To put down or get something down.
  5. To talk about lowering things, like prices.
  6. To talk about downloading files.
  7. To tell someone to go down or to come down

Conocer is used for more than making introductions.  Learn 3 ways it's used in conversational Spanish.

  1. To talk about meeting or to have met someone.
  2. To talk about being acquainted with someone.
  3. To be familiar with a person, place or a thing.

The verb dar means a lot more than to give.  Improve your conversational Spanish by learning 10 ways native speakers use it.

  1. To talk about giving, in a physical or metaphorical sense.
  2. To say what something faces, overlooks or leads to.
  3. To talk about taking a walk.
  4. To talk about how you feel.
  5. To talk about giving birth.
  6. To talk about realizing something
  7. To talk about being in a hurry.
  8. To talk about what's on TV or showing in the movies.
  9. Dar is used in a number of very common expressions.
  10. To give directions

Dejar is a high frequency verb that has at least 13 different uses.  Improve your conversational Spanish by learning them all.

  1. To talk about leaving something intentionally or not.
  2. To talk about dropping someone off
  3. To tell someone to leave you alone
  4. To talk about standing someone up
  5. To talk about leaving a tip
  6. To talk about leaving a message or other information
  7. To allow or to let
  8. To quit or to stop doing something
  9. To lend something to someone.
  10. To postpone something
  11. To put or leave someone in a certain state or condition
  12. To drop something
  13. To negotiate prices

Estar is a Spanish verbs you absolutely have to master, and with 11 uses it's used in many more ways than you think.

  1. To ask someone how they're doing
  2. To ask about how something is
  3. To talk about the location of people or places
  4. To talk about marital status
  5. To talk about dates and days of the week
  6. To talk about the weather
  7. To talk about being dead or alive
  8. To talk about activities that are in progress
  9. To talk about emotions and physical conditions
  10. To talk about the appearance of things and people

5 USES TO IMPROVE YOUR SPANISH FLUENCY

  1. To talk about missing work, school, an appointment or
    some other event.
  2. To talk about how much time is remaining.
  3. To say that you need or don't have something.
  4. To say that you don’t know where something is.
  5. To say that you haven't done or need to do something.

8 USES TO IMPROVE YOUR SPANISH FLUENCY

  1. To do or to make, in both a physical and metaphorical sense.
  2. To talk about the weather.
  3. To talk about how long an action has been taking place.
  4. To talk about how much time has elapsed.
  5. To talk about throwing a party.
  6. To talk about asking questions.
  7. To let someone know about something .
  8. One of the translations for “to become”.

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All About Spanish Verbs Includes  

  • Complete, word-for-word transcripts included. Ideal for reinforcing listening comprehension and vocabulary retention.
  • 19 Audio lessons demonstrating how verbs are used in everyday conversation
  • 19 Additional recordings of the example sentences spoken by a native speaker to help you perfect your pronunciation and listening abilities.