You Create and You Correct
Use crea for polite “you create” and corrige for polite “you correct.” Combine these forms with familiar words and longer sentence patterns from earlier modules.
You create: crea
Use crea when politely saying that one person creates or makes something new. Use crear after familiar helper verbs.
One new building block
Spanish often leaves out usted. Here, crea by itself can mean polite “you create.”
Build the meaning step by step
Crea el plan. = You create the plan.
No crea el documento todavía. = You do not create the document yet.
¿Qué crea? = What do you create?
Use crear after helper verbs
Quiere crear una solución.
Puede crear el proyecto aquí.
Necesita crear el mensaje antes de empezar.
Interpret with crea and crear
You correct: corrige
Use corrige when politely saying that one person corrects, fixes, or improves an error. Use corregir after familiar helper verbs.
One new building block
Use corrige for correcting a document, answer, message, plan, or mistake.
Build the meaning step by step
Corrige el documento. = You correct the document.
No corrige la respuesta todavía. = You do not correct the answer yet.
¿Cuándo corrige el mensaje? = When do you correct the message?
Use corregir after helper verbs
Quiere corregir la información.
Puede corregir el problema aquí.
Necesita corregir el plan antes de enviarlo.
Interpret with corrige and corregir
Create and correct the message
Crea versus crear; corrige versus corregir
- Use crea and corrige for direct polite actions with one person.
- After quiere, puede, or necesita, use the infinitives crear and corregir.
- Crear produces something new; corregir fixes or improves something that already exists.
Combine the new actions
Interpret: You create the final message and correct every detail before you send the document.
Module 50 checkpoint
You can now use crea / crear and corrige / corregir with familiar questions, helper verbs, objects, and expanded sentence patterns.
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