Tardar

Tardar

Today’s Spanish word of the day is “tardar”.

It’s a verb meaning “to take time”. It’s used to say that something takes a long time.

The word “tardar” comes from tardare, meaning “to delay” or “to be slow”. This makes it related to a few English words such as “tardy” and “tarry”.

“Tardar” is a regular verb, so it’s conjugated in the same way as other regular -ar verbs.

Tardamos mucho en encontrar el lugar.

We took a long time to find the place.

¿Por qué tardas tanto?

Why are you taking so long?

Estoy tardando en responder porque quiero pensar bien lo que digo.

I’m taking a while to answer because I want to think carefully about what I say.

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