Good morning everybody. Kiru Paul here. In the last lesson, I talked about how to use the verb get in two forms and get to kind of get a leg up on, you know, get around conjugation and make complete sentences about things that I want and you want. Well, in this video, I'm going to be taking that to the next step and we're going to be introducing you to the Spanish verb, the mega verb p to be able to. This is a fantastic verb. It's going to be one of your most useful verbs in the Spanish language. We're going to be talking about it in the present tense today, but eventually you're going to be using it in the past and even in the conditional. It's fantastic. So, to keep things simple, we're going to be using it just like we did get. And we're only going to be conjugating it in the first and second person, which is the informal u. So, we have yo, I can, and you can. And just like we did with and we can leave off the yo and to because it's clear from the verb conjugation who the subject of the sentence is. And that's unusual about Spanish, right? That we can actually leave the subject off and just go by the verb. Now, when we translate it to English, we have to put that subject back on because, well, it wouldn't make any sense in English. You can use this verb to make sentences very similar to what we did before. I think you can do this one by yourself. Can I confirm the reservation or reserv? Remember we talked about that in some places larer is going to be the one you're using and in some you may see and reserv. Now you won't see reserv. So if you're studying European Spanish just, you know, strike that one from your mind. Just get it out of there. This verb is fantastic when you want to ask if somebody can do something for you. Can you confirm my reservation? Now, we haven't talked about the possessive, so I'm going to give that to you. Reserva, you can do the rest, right? You got it. Just popping things together. We can work this one in with some of the vocabulary I covered in some earlier lessons. And you may not remember it all, but you know, we just got to remind you. How about this one? You think you can translate this one? Can you work tomorrow? How about this one? When can you work? Remember, we talked about question words. How about this one? When can you study Spanish with me? You might have to think for a second, but we're still just using the same patterns and plugging things in. Let's answer that one. I can study Spanish with you tomorrowana. Did you remember those theigo with me and see which is through repetition they're going to stick in there, right? How about this one? Can you study with me today? Did you remember oi? So, so far we've been just saying a lot of mñana tomorrow and oi today. We really need to work in some more time expressions. I told you I'm going to do a video dedicated to it, but I don't want to overwhelm you just in that. So, let's get into days of the weeks. Elun, el martes, elles, elves, elier, elabingo. Now, you may notice that they have a definite article in front of them. I'm really saying the Monday, the Tuesday, the Wednesday. That's an important distinction between English and Spanish because in English we ask can you work on Monday but in Spanish they're asking can you work the Monday knowing that's the pattern go ahead and translate that one can you work on Monday and the person's like yes I can work on Monday do that one C what if you want to answer no but I in work on Wednesday. Remember, but we talked about it. We were doing pronunciation. No, go ahead and try this one. Can you study Spanish with me on Thursday? No, but I can study with you on Sunday. elingo. Now, if you want to reference that, you can do something say every Saturday or say Saturdays like we do in English, you can do that in Spanish, you just have to pluralize the day of the week and you have to also make sure that the definite article agrees. So, if I ask the person, can you work on Saturdays? That would be and see it's savos. We had to put lo and add an s to sabados. Now, the days of the week that already end with an s, you don't have to change that part. You just have to change the definite article. I can work Mondays. Here's a useful little three-word phrase that you can work into your Spanish and it fits this lesson perfectly. But I can't. I want to work Saturdays, but I can't. You try this one. I want to study with you, but I can't. Let's go ahead and respond to that one. So, when can you study with me? See that? So, up there. There's some different ways we can say so in Spanish depending where it is in the sentence. To start out a sentence, one of the great ones is going to be ineson. So, when can you study with me? Go ahead and do that. You know, when it comes to your ti n cio and cognate trick, you may have come across some words that you're like, "Yeah, that one's okay, but I don't really see that it's going to be that useful." And sometimes those words actually are useful because they're used more in Spanish than, you know, we would use them in English. And definitely one of those words is from collaboration. Okay, collaboration. and the verb being collabor to collaborate. Um, we use collaboration and collaborate in English, but not to the extent it's used in Spanish. In Spanish, they're going to use it a lot like um when you're working with somebody on a project. Well, we would say, "Do you want to work with me on this video? Do you want to work with me on this project?" And you can say that, but it's more common to say, "Do you want to collaborate with me on this project?" See if you can do this one. I want to collaborate with you, but I can't. I like that. You can stick that on everything. The words collaboration and collaborate are so prevalent in Spanish that many businesses actually refer to their employees as collaborators. Collabadores. And you probably see collabor right in there. And that's actually another pattern, an extra step that you can do from your ti n cgnate that with some of the verbs you create, you can actually create something like this, like collaborator. And it's not hard to do. You're just taking your verb and in this case collabor drop your r and for males you're just adding d o r collabor. And for females d o r a collabor. So that's how the pattern works. So see if you can do this one. Administrator. What do you get? Administrator and administrator. How do we get that? Well, first we thought administration. That becomes administr. We make that a verb. Administr R. Put a do. Administrator. For females, administrator. What about this one? Investigator. You got that one? Investigator. And a female investigator. Investigator. and you know the steps. I don't have to go through them again. So, let's talk about how you ask somebody, can you help me with something? Because that's a super useful expression. And we're actually going to be working in that me part that we haven't talked about before. And this is where we start to get into direct and indirect object pronouns, which can be complicated in Spanish. But don't worry, we're going to be breaking that down in some simple patterns. There's actually two ways to phrase this. Take a look at the screen. The first one has the may right up there in front. Can you help me with whatever? And the other one has the may attached to the infinitive. Whatever. There's no change in meaning, and you can choose whichever one you like. This is how the rule works when we're dealing with our direct and indirect object pronouns, and that's what that may is. The rule says that they either have to go before the conjugated verb, right, which is what we have there. We have a conjugated verb. We always do. Or it can be attached to an infinitive if there is one. You won't always have one. In this case, we do. So, we have two options. I got to tell you that most English speakers prefer that second one because it's closer to English. They like the word order better. Whatever. Can you help me with my computer? Now, in Spain, computers can have a different word, elador, and in Colombia, it's very similar to comput, but they make it masculine. They say elador. Just an example how um vocabulary can vary by country. So, I try to keep things as general as possible in these videos. And when we hit a common word that people are probably going to talk about like computer, and there's some differences, I'm going to point those out. So, I want you to practice both of these forms today. And the reason is there may not be an infinitive in the future. Now, there is now because we're using this pattern of a sentence starter like I want something to happen. Can something happen? But in the future, you may just have a conjugated verb and you're going to have to know where to put these direct and indirect object pronouns. So, get in the habit of just practicing both. Now, let's try this one. Can you help me with the project? Let's stick that may up there in front. Okay. And now let's do it the other way where we're going to attach it to the infinitive, the unconjugated verb. So let's play with that verb a little bit more to help. Let's say I want to ask somebody, can you help me to do something? For example, can you help me decorate the house? Now with the verb, if we're going to stick an infinitive in after it, there's actually going to be a little ah there. we have to insert it there. With some verbs, you can just attach infinitives like with right, we're like something. We want to do something and with but with some verbs you're going to have to know the preposition that's there. And we talked about that with a plus infinitive, right? To learn to do something. Well, falls in that category. So, right on your word list, write a plus infinitive so you don't forget. So, go ahead and try to translate this one. Can you help me decorate the house? All right, let's do it the first way. We're going to put the may up front before the conjugated verb. So, now we're going to attach it to an infinitive, but we have two, right? So, which one should it be? Well, it should be attached to because that's what you're asking for to help me to do something else. Did you get it? So, go ahead and try this one. Can you help me verify the information now? We're going to be doing it both ways. Right. Did you remember the little ah in there? Good. Now, let's do the second one. And we're going to attach it. You know where to attach it. When it comes to word order in Spanish, you're going to find that it doesn't match English a lot of the time and that can be frustrating. The good news is is it does follow set patterns like this one. It's a set rule you can remember and then use. So, um I guess that's it for this one. Thank you very much for being members of the Curu Spanish crew and until next time, aasta.