{"id":74,"date":"2008-07-18T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T14:00:32","slug":"verbs-in-ducir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/verbs-in-ducir\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbs in -ducir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that a suffix is often added to a word stem to create new words, but that isn&#8217;t always the case. Let&#8217;s take the example of the suffix <strong>\u2013ducir<\/strong> in Spanish and some verbs formed with it: <em>conducir<\/em>, <em>reducir<\/em>, <em>deducir<\/em>, etc. Such verbs are derived from Latin <strong>ducere<\/strong>, which meant \u201cto lead\u201d. The examples below are cognates of English verbs ending in either \u201c-duce\u201d or \u201c-duct\u201d and their meanings coincide in English and Spanish. They have irregular conjugation in the first person singular in the present (<em>yo conduzco<\/em>) and its preterite forms are conjugated as <em>conduje, condujiste, condujo,<\/em> etc. The website <strong>123 Teach Me<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.123teachme.com\">www.123teachme.com<\/a>) has a very good Spanish verb conjugator, so make sure you check it out. Here are the most common verbs ending in <strong>-ducir<\/strong>, along with a usage example of each:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aducir <\/strong>(to adduce, to allege) \u2013 <em>\u00c9l adujo que estaba borracho como atenuante.<\/em> (He alleged being drunk as an extenuating circumstance.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conducir <\/strong>(to drive, to manage, to lead) \u2013 <em>El director condujo la reuni\u00f3n de forma muy din\u00e1mica.<\/em> (The director conducted the meeting in a very dynamic way.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deducir <\/strong>(to deduce, to infer) \u2013 <em>Como llegaba empapado, deduje que hab\u00eda estado en la lluvia<\/em>. (As he arrived soaking wet, I deduced he had been caught in the rain.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inducir <\/strong>(to induce, to lead) &#8211; <em>A m\u00ed me indujeron el parto en la semana 41 del embarazo. <\/em>(They induced labor on the 41st week of my pregnancy.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introducir <\/strong>(to introduce) \u2013 <em>Este pa\u00eds introdujo el caf\u00e9 en Europa.<\/em> (This country introduced coffee to Europe.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producir <\/strong>(to produce) \u2013 <em>Emilio Estefan produjo discos para artistas como Ricky Martin, Shakira y Thal\u00eda.<\/em> (Emilio Estefan produced records for artists like Ricky Martin, Shakira and Thalia.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that a suffix is often added to a word stem to create new words, but that isn&#8217;t always the case. Let&#8217;s take the example of the suffix \u2013ducir in Spanish and some verbs formed with it: conducir, reducir, deducir, etc. Such verbs are derived from Latin ducere, which meant \u201cto lead\u201d. The examples&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/verbs-in-ducir\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,358365,150,165],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-conjugation","tag-grammar","tag-suffix","tag-verb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}