Word
Verifiqué el recibo de la tienda.
Meaning
I checked the receipt from the store.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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?
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?