Questions & Answers about Podemos esperar aquí con ella.
Why is esperar left in its infinitive (dictionary) form instead of being conjugated?
When you use poder (can / to be able to) to say what someone can do, only poder gets conjugated to match the subject. The action verb that follows—in this case, esperar (to wait)—stays in its basic infinitive form. This is just like English: we say "We can wait", not "We can we wait".
I learned that poder changes to pued- (like puedo or puedes). Why doesn't it change in podemos?
Poder is a stem-changing verb where the o changes to ue, but there is an important exception for A1 learners to remember: the nosotros / nosotras (we) forms never use the stem change in the present tense. So it is puedo (I can), but always podemos (we can).
Doesn't esperar mean "to hope"? How do I know it means "to wait" here?
Esperar is a very useful multi-purpose verb! It means "to wait", "to hope", and "to expect". You can tell which meaning to use from the context of the sentence. Since they are talking about staying in a location (aquí, meaning "here") alongside someone (con ella), "to wait" is the only translation that makes sense.
Why do we use ella for "her" here? Isn't the word for "she"?