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Venir Means "To Come" and More

Like many everyday verbs, venir has quite a few meanings. They include "to arrive," to include," "to serve" and "to continue." Fortunately, most of the time, it can be translated as "to come." Also, like many other everyday verbs, venir comes with an irregular conjugation, but once you learn it you'll also know the conjugation for the entire venir family of verbs.

Venir Means "To Come" and More originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 14:11:41.

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Meet the Vivir Family of Verbs

Learning prefixes can be a fun way to increase your vocabulary, but the meanings they give to words aren't always predictable. You might correctly guess, for example, that since mal- usually means "undesirable" and vivir means "to live," that malvivir means to leave in an undesirable way.

But can you guess what sobrevivir means, or pervivir? If not, be sure to check out our new lesson on verbs derived from vivir.

Meet the Vivir Family of Verbs originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Sunday, February 7th, 2010 at 09:04:24.

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Spending Time With Gastar

The Spanish verb gastar carries with it the idea of something being consumed or used up — so if you're talking about money you might translate is as "to spend," and if you're talking about gasoline you might even use the verb "to burn." Gastar is a good example of a word whose best translation depends on the context.

Spending Time With Gastar originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 14:06:03.

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Extreme Cases

"Best" and "brightest," which are mejor and más listo in Spanish, are examples of superlatives. Superlatives are used to indicate that something has a quality that is the most extreme.

Extreme Cases originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 05:02:33.

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Another Punctuation Mark: the Colon

As in English, the colon of Spanish is used to indicate that what follows it is related to what precedes it. Our newest punctuation lesson shows examples of its usage and lists two ways of using the colon where it usually isn't used in English.

Another Punctuation Mark: the Colon originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 13:14:38.

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