5 minutes of Spanish: About volver, devolver & volverse + Podcast. (English version)

 

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In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to analyze the verbs volver (to come back), devolver (to return) and volverse (to become). Let's go with volver since we came back from our trip to Puerto Vallarta, so we are inspired by this verb.

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Back to our verbs: volver is the same as regresar, right?

 

Yes, in this context of turning around or returning to the starting point. Also, we can say retornar which is cognate of English, but it is not used much.

Retornar- to return

How about if we conjugate it?

It is an irregular verb, in the present tense it changes the u for the o just like the verb mover. The past participle is very irregular: vuelto.

I go to the beach on A Street but I return on B Street because there is a lot of traffic.

We came back from Puerto Vallarta a week ago.

The wife says to the husband: My love, what time are you coming back?

And in art?

It is a powerful verb: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer the poet of romanticism used to say:

The dark swallows will return

On your balcony their nests to hang...

Oscuras golondrinas- dark swallows

Nidos- nests

Another example is the tango of the famous Carlos Gardel: "Volver", Of course, he speaks of a man returning, or going back to his hometown, he says nostalgically:

"One always returns to one's first love".

Another use of volver in which it does not mean the same as regresar, is when you are going to do an action again, you are going to repeat that action.

There we use: volver a + infinitivo

Let's rewrite more examples of these verbs.

Students usually go back to studying the subjunctive, don't they?

Art gives us another beautiful song for this verb followed by a and an infinitive.

The song is: "Volver a empezar", by the Argentinian Alejandro Lerner.

This year the color yellow was used again.

What about devolver?

Devolver in English means- to return

In what context can you hear it?

For example, if you rent a car, you have to return it on time and with gas.

Devolver el carro rentado

It is also good to return books you borrow.

You can return a favor, someone helps you and you in another memento help him and tell him I return the favor.

And return?

It is one of the 6 verbs of change, in English it is translated as to become.

What does it mean to become?

 It expresses a rapid and lasting change in a person's character or attitude.

For example, a person who has been robbed many times becomes more suspicious.

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