| ¡Hola! Soy Romina Romaniello, tu profesora de español. |
| “Hello! I’m Romina Romaniello, your Spanish teacher.” |
| Today, I’m gonna talk to you about one of the most important and frequently used verbs in Spanish, el verbo querer, “the verb querer.” When you started learning Spanish, you’re gonna notice that we use the verb querer all the time, and you might be wondering, what does querer mean, qué significa querer en español? What does it mean? Querer is often translated as like “I like you” or “I want you” and then, it can also mean like “I want” or “I wish.” So, depending on what are you talking about, this verb is gonna be translated into Spa-, into English as either “I want” or “I wish.” |
| So let’s start talking about wishes. I’ll give you an example, un ejemplo. |
| Yo quiero tener una casa grande. |
| “I want to have a big house.” |
| Please repeat… |
| I… perdón. |
| Yo quiero tener una casa grande. |
| So in this case, it’s pretty obvious that I’m talking about wishes, okay? So, in this case, you’re gonna be translating the verb quiero as “I wish to have.” |
| Okay, let’s now focus in the verb querer as in “to want,” okay? |
| If you are at a cafe, you can order a cafe with the verb querer. |
| Quiero un café por favor. |
| So here, we’re just saying, I would like or “I want a coffee, please.” |
| Now that we know the meaning of the verb querer, let’s focus on its conjugation. |
| “Please repeat after me.” |
| Por favor repite después de mi. |
| Yo quiero |
| Tú quieres |
| Usted quiere |
| Él quiere |
| Nosotros queremos |
| Vosotros queréis |
| Ustedes quieren |
| Ellos quieren |
| Yo quiero |
| Tú quieres |
| Usted quiere |
| Él quiere |
| Nosotros queremos |
| Vosotros queréis |
| Ustedes quieren |
| Ellos quieren |
| If you’ve been paying attention, you probably noticed that the infinitive form of the verb which is querer changes a little bit throughout the conjugation, okay? And if you noticed that, congratulations! Well spot! And the reason why this verb changes, it’s because it’s an irregular verb, es un verbo irregular. The type of irregularity this verb has is located in the first section of the verb which we call raíz which means “root” or “stem,” right? So basically, what happens is that the vowel E changes to IE, okay? E becomes IE, okay, in certain people making the action, okay? So, it will be yo quiero, tú quieres, él quiere, ustedes quieren, ellos quieren, okay? It’s not correct to say yo quero. You have to say yo quiero because it’s an irregular verb. But it becomes a regular verb again when you’re using nosotros or vosotros. |
| More often than not, we’re using the verb querer next to another verb, okay? |
| As I was saying before, yo quiero tener. Tener is another verb. I’m saying in Spanish, “I want to have…” “To have” is an infinitive verb. It’s another verb as well. So basically, what you have to do in Spanish is you need to conjugate the verb querer, okay, yo quiero, tú quieres a we were doing the conjugation before. And with the verb that is located after querer, you just have to keep it as it is in the infinitive form. |
| So for example, it’s not correct, yo quiero tengo. That’s wrong, okay? What you have to say is yo quiero tener, tú quieres tener, el quiere tener. So as you can see, querer is changing. It’s being conjugated, while tener remained exactly the same across all these people. |
| I’ll give you a very useful example… |
| Yo quiero hablar español perfectamente. |
| All right guys, thank you so much for joining me in a new video. I hope that you enjoyed this lesson. As usual, if you have any questions, you can leave me a comment down below. Also, take the comments as an opportunity for you to practice Spanish and maybe write a sentence with the verb querer and then another verb, okay? Just a full sentence in Spanish. ¡Muchísimas… Muchísimas gracias! Thank you so much for watching today’s video. Y nos vemos en la próxima clase. “And I will see you in our next class.” ¡Adiós! |
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