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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 20 December 2005 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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How do you make this sentence informal:
Es usted profesor? Simply with tu? Es tu profesor?? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6961 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 2 of 7 20 December 2005 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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¿Eres profesor? or ¿Tu eres profesor?
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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 20 December 2005 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah yes ofcourse, eres.
I haven't had that in Pimsleur yet. (Strange by the way, no es but eres, I wonder why) Thanks ;) Edited by tuffy on 20 December 2005 at 4:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| KingM Triglot Senior Member michaelwallaceauthor Joined 7193 days ago 275 posts - 300 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 7 20 December 2005 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Simply because eres is the tu form of ser in the present tense. Where things are a little trickier for an English speaker is the answer to, "Who is calling?" English: "It's me, Tuffy." (or, "it is I") Spanish: "Soy yo, Tuffy." - literally, "I am me." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 7 20 December 2005 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Soy yo, it sounds a little natural to me.
But that is probably because I don't know the meaning of soy and the usage of yo well enough :-) At least a short sentence, I like short sentences. Does soy actualy mean "I am" or does it mean "am"? Because you can say "yo soy" but in Spanish you drop the yo most of the time. So by itself soy means only am? In that case maybe it translates "am I", it's me? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7240 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 6 of 7 20 December 2005 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, Soy by itself means “I am” although depending on the context it could be translated “am I” I suppose. BTW, Pimsleur should let you use some tu forms later on.
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| That_Guy Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7100 days ago 74 posts - 87 votes Studies: Hindi, English*, Spanish | Message 7 of 7 21 December 2005 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm pretty sure Soy and Yo Soy can be translated as the same thing, "I am", or if it the statement is a question, "Am I".
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