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Verifiqué el recibo de la tienda.

Verifiqué el recibo de la tienda.
I checked the receipt from the store.
From Lesson 101:Preterite spelling changes (-gué, -qué, -cé)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Verifiqué el recibo de la tienda.

de
from / of
la tienda
the store
el recibo
receipt
verificar
to verify

Questions & Answers about Verifiqué el recibo de la tienda.

Why is it verifiqué with a qu instead of a c?
The verb is verificar (to check or verify). Normally, to make the "I" form in the past tense (preterite), you take off the -ar and add -é. But if we wrote "verificé", the c would sound like an "s" (since c before e makes a soft sound). To keep the hard "k" sound of the original verb, we change the c to qu.
Do I pronounce the u in verifiqué?
No, the u is completely silent. In Spanish, whenever you see qu before an e or an i, it just makes a hard "k" sound. You pronounce the end of this word like "-KAY".
I always mix up the words for receipt, recipe, and prescription. Is un recibo used for all of them?
No, el recibo is only a payment receipt or bill (like the one you get at la tienda). For a doctor's prescription or a cooking recipe, you need to use a completely different word: la receta.
Could I use a different verb like revisar or chequear instead of verificar here?
Absolutely! Both revisar (to inspect/check) and chequear (to check) are very common in Latin America and mean almost exactly the same thing in this context. You could easily say Revisé el recibo or Chequeé el recibo.

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