No sooner said than done: we learn “hecho” in Spanish / 5 minutes of Spanish + Podcast (English version)
Hello, how are you? Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are or what time you're listening to us. Thank you for being here for the 256th edition of this podcast to practice Spanish. In these five minutes of Spanish, halfway through the week, we're going to play with a very common and very interesting word: “hecho,” with an “h.” We have to see the difference between: “echo esto a la basura” ( I throw this in the trash ) y “hecho en México” ( Made in Mexico). Remember: echo without an h comes from the verb echar, and hecho with an h is the past participle of hacer or a noun. Por ejemplo: El pastel está hecho con harina y mantequilla. El The cake is made with flour and butter. El pastel está hecho con amor. The cake is made with love. Today we are not going to analyze the entire verb “to do,” because it has many uses. We are going to focus only on “done.” “Done” can mean an event, something that happened. En inglés es simple: it’s a fa...