Coffee Break Spanish - How to use 'hacerse' in Spanish | A Coffee Break with Anabel

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Join Anabel from Coffee Break Spanish to explore how to use the versatile Spanish verb hacerse. From changes in profession to personal transformation, this reflexive verb appears in a variety of everyday expressions 🔄🗣️By the end of this episode, you’ll understand the nuances of hacerse and be able to use it naturally in different contexts.➡️ Continue building your Spanish skills and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Annabelle, and I am very excited for today's little espresso episode in between main seasons of Coffee Break Spanish. Now, last week we celebrated a colleague's birthday, and something they said really sparked my inner teacher. They said, me ago major. I'm becoming older. It was said in a jokey way, but every time I hear someone saying those words on their birthday, I always reply the same thing.

No, te aces major, te aces, mas sabio. You're not becoming older, you are becoming wiser. Well, so far, not many people looked convinced about my words. But this little exchange made me think of the verb Acerse and how we can use it in Spanish. So, let's a etcharlé a vis-a-a-se is a reflexive verb and it's quite versatile.

The first use I want to highlight is the one my colleague used. Acerse to mean to become. Now, there are different ways to translate to become. in Spanish, but we choose to do aserse when we want to express a change in age, like in this case, profession, wealth, religion, ideology, and so on. Let's see some other examples to put this into context.

The first one is, Clara, she has made doctora, and she's doing very rich. Clara She has done doctora.

Here we can see the perfect tense of the verb Acerse. And it means Clara has become a doctor. It continues

saying and She is She is the continuous tense we are using Star

plus the gerent of Acerse Se is doing very rica and she's becoming

she's getting very rich. Then Clara she has made doctora and she's making a doctor and she's getting very rich in the sense of she's becoming very rich. Perfecto. And also in the sentence we can see

that after a certain, we can have a noun doctora or an adjective rica. Now let's see another example because I know this can be a little bit tricky. The next one is, Te has et ceteraano?

Te has eto, here again, the perfect tense of the verb, Acerse, and pay attention to that te has et eto. Remember, that is a reflexive verb. This means, have you become vegetarian, vegetarian? Have you become vegetarian?

Te asetio vegetarian. And here, after Acerse, we have the adjective. Vegetarian. Perfect. Now is when the fun starts. Now is when the fun starts. Because by adding the preposition a to Acerse, we get one of my favorite verbs,

and it's very easy to use. I'm talking about Acerse a, which means to get used to something. It is actually very similar. to accostumbrarse a. And in fact, both are interchangeable. And if this is the first time that you hear Acostumbrarse a, don't worry,

because it works like acerse a. So here you have two verbs for the price of one. Now, both verbs mean to get used to something. Beamos an example. Now, if we want to say, I cannot get used to cold winters, we are going to start by using the verb So we say, no, me ago, a los inviernos frios. I can't get used to or I don't get used to called winters. No me ago a los inviarnes frios.

Here we are using the verb, to be a no me ago a and then those inviverns if we

want to use accustomer a then it will be very similar no

me accustom to those imbiones frios both sentences no

me do me ago a those and no me

accustom to those both mean I cannot get used

to cold winters well well well well very Now, what if we use the preposition gone instead of a?

Acerse gone means to obtain something difficult to get. In the majority of the cases, we can translate it as to manage to get something or to manage to obtain. Let's see this in context in our example. Te has Echchegu Yeah With the concert

For the Has Echchon is have you managed to get then we have that yeah that is going to be translated

as yet and then las entradas for the concert tickets So it means have you managed

to get the concert tickets yet? Remember that that yet is yeah Te has

Echtoe with the entrances for the concert. Well, as you can see, Acerse is a

very versatile verb and can be combined in many ways. There are other interesting uses of Acerse in

Spanish. In fact, we explore one use of Acerse that is a little bit more advanced

in Coffee Break Spanish Level 4. So if you want to continue improving your Spanish and to get

to know this verb a little bit better, be sure to check that out. But we haven't finished yet. No we've finished yet. We're going to repassar what we have seen today. We are going to review what we have seen today.

But you are going to help me. I'm going to tell you the infinitive of the verb, the structure, and you'll tell me how we translate it. So the first one is Acerse followed by an adjective or a noun. How do we translate this? Yes, s, to become. To become is a-se plus an adjective or a noun.

Perfecto. Now, Acerse-a. A-ser-se followed by the preposition a. Yes, yes, we translated as to get used to. And for extra points, do you remember the other way we can say a in Spanish. Acostumbrarse a. So

Acerse a and Acostumbarse a both mean to get used to. Estupendo. Now the last one. Acerse con. How do we translate? Acerse followed by the

preposition con. Eso is. To obtain something difficult to get, so to manage to get something or to manage to obtain something. Well, very good work.

Menudo episode. I think that is all for the moment. If you would like to keep improving your Spanish,

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Much thanks for keep your heart to get it after the final. And I hope you have enjoyed learning about this verb, Acerse, and some ways in which it can be used. Hopefully you'll be able to use it soon. Much animo and after the next. Radio Lingual Limited. Recording copyright, 2025, Radiolingua Limited. All rights reserved.