Spanish 101

[Sonrisa]

so mas means more and most then?

muy - very

mucho - ?

[lovesjoyajm]

so mas means more and most then?

muy - very

mucho - ?

Mucho means a lot, many or much.

Estoy muy cansada - I'm very tired.

Tengo muchos gatos - I have a lot of (many) cats.
Tengo mucho dinero - I have a lot of (much) money.

[misombra]

okay sorry risa. my modem broke and i was offline for a couple days.

yes lovesjoy explained muy and mucho well.

mucho follows the feminine/masculine singular/plural thing. i talked with my russian friend and he said that the russian language uses masculine and feminine as well. i can actually pick up on some of what he says when he speaks russian so i imagine the two languages are a bit similar.

anyway you can also use the word mas or lo mas to say "the most."

sentir tu calor es lo que MAS quiero... it's what i want the most.

another word that's common is tanto(s) or tanta(s). hay tantas cosas que hacer= there are so many things to do. tanto= means "so many." "so much."

te quiero mucho= i love you a lot. te quiero tanto= i love you sooooo much.

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te quise tanto= i loved you so much.

we'll get to different tenses later...

demasiado is a word you use for "too much."

es demasiado tarde= it's too late. es demasiado= it's too much.

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i'm using that song twice because i love it so much. lo quiero tanto.

[Sonrisa]

oh gosh, i forgot we also have tenses.

how about command phrases?

eat .....!

brush your teeth

wash your face, hands, feet

dance

sing

talk

drink water

jump, run, sit down

sleep, wake up

[misombra]

eat- come

brush your teeth- limpiate los dientes, lavate los dientes (either one works)
limpiar- to clean lavar- to wash

wash your face- limpiate la cara
wash your hands- limpiate las manos

dance- baila

sing- canta

drink water- toma el aqua

run- corre

sit- sientate

sleep- duerme

get up- despiertate

now these are all informal ways. you should not use any of those commands if you're talking to an authority figure like your boss or a stranger that's older than you or something. calling a person "tu" means you know them and they don't need respect. like your kids or your friends.

commands are a bit advanced. there's a few more things you'll need to learn before you get there...

[Sonrisa]

i can use them on my coworkers though. what's the formal way for some of them?

[misombra]

okay, well we know that bailar is an -ar verb. so if we're commanding somebody to it and it's informal, we'll say baila. if it's formal we'll say baile.

comer is an -er verb, so if we're informally commanding somebody to eat we'd say come. for formal it would be coma.

now some verbs have the word te, or le, or se to go along with them.

te would be you/informal
se would be you/formal

despertar- to wake up

despiertate- wake up (you/informal)
despiertese- wake up (you/formal)

sentar- to sit

sientate- sit down (you/informal)
sientese- sit down (you/formal)

so if it's an -ar verb, for formal you would put an -e at the end of the verb, and that would make it a formal command. to do the same with an -er or -ir verb, you would put an -a at the end of it. if it's something they would be putting themselves to do, you would put a -te at the end for informal, or -se at the end for formal.

[misombra]

dormir- to sleep (irregular -ir verb)

duermo
duermes
duerme <----------------- this is what you would use for a command for a single person.
duermen <----------------" " more than one person.
dormimos

how would you tell somebody in a formal way, to sleep?

[misombra]

volver- to come back/ to return

vuelvo
vuelves
vuelve
vuelven
volvemos

so in this song, he's saying vuelve! meaning 'come back'!

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[misombra]

ya te perdi'?

[Sonrisa]

i still need to make my post its of the above posts.

so far so good. i think my brain is starting to accept it little by little.

[doppelgaenger]

se dice "hiking" in español

[misombra]

i still need to make my post its of the above posts.

so far so good. i think my brain is starting to accept it little by little.

it does take a while. commands are a bit hard. i think that's one of the things we should come back to later. but you are understanding things.

[misombra]

se dice "hiking" in español

you would say "como se dice?" which means "how do you say..."

i'm not sure what hiking is. i would say caminando, which means walking. caminando a/en las montanias...

i guess i would say excursion... ummmmm excusir... excusiriendo......

i don't know right now i've been drinking a little bit and can't teach lol. lesson will begin next week when risa gets the commands a bit more.

[misombra]

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