Erin, yes, but the correct verb ending changes between usted and tú (which is the informal 2nd person singular).
Angel: How're you feeling? Faith: Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear.
'A Hole in the World'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 2:54:24 pm PST #8321 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 2:55:07 pm PST #8322 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ha! All that Latin is good for something! I freaked one of the smart ass kids out when they were looking up "inquest" in the dictionary and he said "I bet you don't know where that comes from" and I rattled off "Inquire. Latin for "to ask""
It was worth EVERY PENNY just to be able to do that, I tell ya.
Soy un professora listo espantoso. ¡Yo me río de usted!
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 2:56:54 pm PST #8323 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So if I'm talking to students plural, instead of "se lo..." I say...?
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 2:57:55 pm PST #8324 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This caused me much trauma when I started taking French in college, because the foreign-language-learning part of my brain didn't want to change gears into pronoun-using.
HA! Flip this and you have my response to spanish. I keep thinking, "WHA? I have to pay attention to endings. Where are the pronouns."
Also, I'm prolly wrong but if you are using usted, you should say usted since the verb endings are the same for 3rd person singular.
Theodosia - Feb 16, 2005 2:59:10 pm PST #8325 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You'll sound fairly stupid, but on the other hand, they'll know you're trying.
I remember hearing from a friend of mine who spent some time living with a host family in Germany that she ruffled a lot of feathers in the town she was staying in, because the German she'd learned at home was only using the familiar-you and she didn't know to switch to the formal-you with adults of her parents' age not related to her.
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 3:00:36 pm PST #8326 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
See, I liked Latin because I never ran into native Latin speakers who would confuse me. It was all nice dead people who never talked too fast or used modern street vernacular.
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 3:00:42 pm PST #8327 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Erin "sé que lo dijieron"
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 3:01:49 pm PST #8328 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Dee-HHAIR-on?
Que?
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 3:03:04 pm PST #8329 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have teacher spanish for parent teacher conferences:
Your kid is failing.
He doesn't do his homework.
She needs to read more.
He's doing well.
She's the smartest person in the class.
He doesn't get along with others.
She's the root of all evil.
You know. The usual stuff.
amych - Feb 16, 2005 3:05:08 pm PST #8330 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
es la raiz de todo mal?
Coolness! I'm so using that.