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Quiero cargar el impuesto al préstamo.

Quiero cargar el impuesto al préstamo.
I want to charge the tax to the loan.
From Lesson 101:Preterite spelling changes (-gué, -qué, -cé)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Quiero cargar el impuesto al préstamo.

a
to
querer
to want
cargar
to charge
el impuesto
the tax
el préstamo
the loan

Questions & Answers about Quiero cargar el impuesto al préstamo.

The verb here is cargar in the infinitive. How would I say "I charged" in the past tense?
Because cargar ends in -gar, the "yo" (I) form in the preterite past tense needs a spelling change to keep the hard "g" sound. You change the -gar to -gué, making it cargué. If it were spelled normally as "cargé", the "g" would sound like an English "h".
Why is it al préstamo instead of a el préstamo?
In Spanish, whenever the word a (to) is followed immediately by the masculine word for "the" (el), they must combine into the contraction al. This is a mandatory rule that makes the language flow more smoothly when speaking.
Why does the second verb, cargar, stay in the infinitive form?
When two verbs are used together to express a single idea, like saying you "want to charge" something, only the first verb is conjugated. Here, querer changes to quiero (I want), and the second verb stays as the infinitive cargar (to charge).
Does cargar only mean to charge a tax or a fee?
No, it is a very useful word with multiple meanings! Besides charging money, cargar is the word you use to charge a battery (like a cell phone) and to load or carry something heavy, like loading boxes into a car.

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