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| wklose99 Newbie United States Joined 5008 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 11 17 August 2010 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am in the beginer/intermediate level of Spanish. I am using Practice Makes perfect books for vocab/grammer, Pimsluer/Rosetta stone for pronunciation, and a few other books I got off amazon for general practice.
I am really only concerned with learning Latin American Spanish. I usually ignore informal conjugations of you/y'all and just use usted/ustedes. In Spain, to show informal possession one uses the word 'tu' for informal singular. Is 'tu' ever used for possession in Latin America(do you always use 'su' instead of 'tu' to say your?) or are there times when it is used for possession? Also, why is the vocab word for time and weather tiempo? It is confusing me! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5806 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 11 17 August 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Because the weather changes with time.
Besides, when they talk about time, it's mostly "ora" or "oras". Edited by Cainntear on 17 August 2010 at 8:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5248 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 11 17 August 2010 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
The short answer to this is that if you address someone with the informal pronoun tú (or vos), then the possessive is tu or tuyo/-a/-s. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| wklose99 Newbie United States Joined 5008 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 11 17 August 2010 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
So this is never/rarely heard in south american countries? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5248 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 11 17 August 2010 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
They do use tú (or vos) in most of South America. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 5998 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 6 of 11 18 August 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not sure if this is what is confusing you, but "tu" is also the possessive pronoun for "vos" (as well as for "tú").
Also, in Latin American Spanish, while there is no distinction between informal and formal for second person plural (i.e. they only use ustedes and not vosotros), in most regions, there is a distinction between formal and informal for second person singular (i.e. they use both tú/vos and usted). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Agustín76 Newbie Argentina Joined 4975 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English | Message 7 of 11 19 September 2010 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Al menos en Argentina la palabra TIEMPO se utiliza tanto para condiciones climáticas como en referencia al transcurso de las horas. "El pronóstico del tiempo para capital y alrededores indica lluvias y tormentas..." "Cuánto tiempo hace que estámos esperando ya? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Andrew~ Groupie United States howlearnspanish.com Joined 5063 days ago 42 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 8 of 11 18 October 2010 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tu is more frequently used in Latin America than it is in Spain. Remember, tu can mean "you" or it can mean "yours", e.g. "Tu eres muy sympatico" and "¿Es tu bici?"--the first one means "YOU are very nice", the second one means "Is that YOUR bike?".
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