ESTAR / TO BE
Estar is used to
express location, transitory aspects, and characteristics that are NOT inherant
property of a noun, such as how something/someone looks, feels or tastes at a given moment.
Pronoun
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Present
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Past
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Future
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Conditional
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yo/
I
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tú/
you
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él,
ella, Ud./ he, she, you
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nos./
we
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vos./you
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ellos,
Uds./ they, you
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1.
Location or position of people and things.
EXAMPLES
2.
Transitory, unusual, recently changed or constantly changing state or
condition.
EXAMPLES
·
El café está frío./
The coffee is cold.
3.
Results of an action.
EXAMPLE
4.
State or condition of a subject.
EXAMPLE
·
El rehén está vivo./
The hostage is alive.
5.
Progressive tenses.
EXAMPLE
6.
Weather expressions.
EXAMPLE
IDIOMATIC
EXPRESSIONS
PREGUNTAS/
QUESTIONS
In
Spanish there are 3 ways of asking a
question to elicit a yes or no answer, and they are
the following:
1.
Verb
+
pronoun ...Unlike English, the auxiliaries do and does
are not used.
NOTE: That
interrogative questions have an opening (¿) question mark and also a closing one (?).
2.
Pronoun
+ verb...The intonation makes the sentence interrogative.
3. Verb
+...+
pronoun. The pronoun goes last.
PALABRAS
INTERROGATIVAS/ INTERROGATIVE WORDS
NOTE: These
words are ALWAYS graphically
accentuated, whether they are used to formulate a direct or indirect question.
What
time...?
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Where?
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From
where?
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Which
direction?
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To
where?
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How?
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Which
one/-s?
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When?
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How
much?
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How
many?
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What?
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For
what reason?
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Why?
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Who?
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To
whom?
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For
whom
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Whose?
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