Spanish 101

[misombra]

yes you could say that...

[Sonrisa]

great, i am going to memorize all of that for today.

[Sonrisa]

[misombra]

your signature says, "porque estas tan serio?"

you're saying why ARE YOU (estas) so serious?

[Sonrisa]

your signature says, "porque estas tan serio?"

you're saying why ARE YOU (estas) so serious?

i didn't know how to say, why so serious, lol

[doppelgaenger]

Misombra, how many cases in Spanish?

[misombra]

cases?/////////////////

[doppelgaenger]

Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive?

[misombra]

oh. i don't know.

[doppelgaenger]

Why then is it Te quiero, and not tu quiero?

[misombra]

it just is. i don't really analyze it that way i guess.

[lovesjoyajm]

Doppel, Spanish doesn't have named cases like German. There are nominative, objective and possessive pronouns, so I guess it would be nominative, dative/accusative, and genitive, but they don't have the significance (or specific names) they have in other languages.

for example - first person singular - has pronouns:
yo (I) - nominative / me (me) - objective / mi (my) - possessive
Second person singular has
tu (you) - nominative / te (you) - objective / tu (your) - possessive

Personal pronouns are also the only thing that has any form of a case - adjectives and nouns are uninflected for case.


I think that's it, right Sombra?

[misombra]

yes lol. thank you!

[Sonrisa]

estoy listo maestro misombra!

[misombra]

okay. i'm glad you keep bringing up new things.

in spanish you have masculine and feminine nouns.

since your female the correct way to say that is estoy lista. if a male were to say it, he would say estoy listo.

i suppose the next lesson would be other verb conjugation.

there are several kinds of verbs... verbs that end in -ar, ir, er, and irregular verbs.

i'll start with -ar verbs. let's use cantar as an example

cantar= to sing.

yo canto=i sing
tu cantas= you sing
el/ella canta= he/she sings
nosotros cantamos= we sing
ellos/ellas cantan= they sing

if you're trying to say you guys or you all, you would use ustedes and use the an at the end.

ustedes cantan= you guys sing.


yo= -ar--->o
tu= -ar--->as
el= -ar------>a
nosotros= -ar------>amos
ellos= -ar-------->an

so now for a quiz... conjugate this verb: bailar (to dance)


yo _________
tu __________
el__________
nosotros__________
ellos _____________