Spanish 101

[Sonrisa]

you should understand it.

lo in front of a verb means you're doing something to it...

lo encuentro- i found it

lo puedo- i can do it

lo sabes- you know it

this would lead to the lesson i was trying to give you but i lost you a little.

if you're doing something to you, you would put "te" in front of the verb.

te amo- i love you

te encuentro- i found you

te tengo- i have you...

THIS is really confusing to me

[misombra]

okay. let's look at one verb... ummmmmmm... intender...


intender -to understand

yo intiendo
tu intiendes
el intiende
ellos intienden
nosotros intendemos

now you want to say "i understand you." well we know that "i understand" is yo intiendo. but you don't want to just say i understand, you want to say i understand YOU.

then you would put the word "te" in front of it.

yo TE intiendo.

now how would you say, i need you?

i'll give you a hint:

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[misombra]

amar- to love

yo amo
tu amas
el ama
ellos aman
nosotros amamos

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[misombra]

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[misombra]

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como TE extranio corazon
yo no TE puedo olvidar

how i miss you
i can't forget you

[misombra]

estas lista por una prueba sonrisa?

como se dice eso?...

they need you=

she loves you=

[tooxshort]

she loves you=

yeah yeah yeah!

No, wait ... Spanish ...

She loves you
Si Si Si

[misombra]

so sonrisa, there was a quiz... where are your answers?

[Sonrisa]

uno momento por favor, oy soy poncho.

[Sonrisa]

estas lista por una prueba sonrisa?

como se dice eso?...

they need you=

she loves you=

they need you= te necesitamos

she loves you= te ama

[misombra]

they need you = te necesitan

te necesitamos = we need you.

[Sonrisa]

i knew that but for some reason my brain went haywire.

[misombra]

okay we know that te in front of a verb means they're doing that to you.

te explico (i explain to you)

now say we want to do something to me. then you would put me in front of it.

me necesitan= they need me
me explicas= you explain to me

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no ME DIGAS que ME QUIERES= don't TELL ME you LOVE ME
no quiero que nadie ME MIRE sufrir= i don't want anybody to SEE ME suffer.

[Sonrisa]

me gusta esa canción.

I am not getting the usage of the word que for some reason

[misombra]

bueno. que es una palabra que functiona en muchas maneras.

(it's a word that has a lot of functions)

in that song he says no me digas que... in that sense it is used as "that."

don't tell me that...

you can also say lo que, which means "that which." it's used in spanish more often than it's used in english i think. in english people just say "what."

in that song te amo te amo te amo she says "sentir tu calor es LO QUE mas quiero." they're saying to feel your heat is what i want most.

mana uses it that way in "tu tienes LO QUE quiero." = you have what i want.

now some things don't translate well between english and spanish. but literally it means you have "it that" i want. but it's best to think of it as that which.

lo que- that which.
que- what
que-that

but it's not "that" as in eso or esto. you would use eso as in "that right here." or esto as "that over there"

eso- that right here
esto- that over there

que- that which...

es complicado si no comprendas no te preocupes que esta bueno.