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The verb jugar

The Spanish verb jugar, meaning to play, is also a radical changing verb. The u vowel changes to ue before unstressed endings. What is unusual about this verb is that in all other cases, it is the vowel o that changes to ue. In other words:

This means that the present tense of jugar looks like this:

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Now we've seen the possible vowel changes for regular Spanish -ar verbs, we'll look at a couple of tips for guessing whether a verb has a vowel change.

1. Note that jugar means to play is in playing games. In the sense of play a musical instrument, the verb tocar is used.

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