Teach me your language I teach you mine

[sleepingbeauty13]

No problem

cantar (sing)
Yo cantaba
Tu cantabas
El/ella cantaba
Nosotros cantabamos
Ustedes cantaban
Ellos cantaban
when it ends in ar you add a b plus the ending

tener (have)
Yo tenia
Tu tenias
El/ella tenia
Nosotros teniamos
Ustedes tenian
Ellos tenian
when it ends in er you change the e for an i plus the ending

vivir (live)
Yo vivia
Tu vivias
El/ella vivia
Nosotros viviamos
Ustedes vivian
Ellos vivian

The endings are bold and underline, in ar the added b's are bold and in the er endings the change e for i are also bold

 

[xmodel citizen]

Cool! And is that just the regular past tense? BEcause I remember learning, briefly, about past tense and in "ir" verbs, I remember the past tense for yo being an 'i' with an accent, like "vivi".

 

[BerlinRocks]

Could someone help me with the french words for weather? because thats what I did worst on in my last test

infact I got none of the weather topic right

Im just needing key words and maybe phrases

just wanted to say that in french we NEVER say "il fait du soleil" or "il fait du vent"!
it's sunny = il y a du soleil (or le temps est ensoleillé)
it's cloudy = c'est nuageux (or il y a des nuages)
it's rainy = c'est pluvieux (or il pleut)
etc.
ex. :
bad = Il fait du brouillard. -It's foggy
good = il y a du brouillard / c'est brumeux - it's foggy / there's fog

here are the "weather" words :
brumeux = foggy
ensoleillé = sunny
pluvieux = rainy
orageux = stormy
etc.

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Cool! And is that just the regular past tense? BEcause I remember learning, briefly, about past tense and in "ir" verbs, I remember the past tense for yo being an 'i' with an accent, like "vivi".

Yes that's just regular, there are other tenses (past and future), some have weird names like preterito and pluscuanperfecto and sometimes you have to add an auxiliary verb for some of the tenses.

And yes, you are right about the "i" with an accent , but I don't how to type them . There are rules for the accent (ley de acentuacion, by the way, the "o" in acentuacion has an accent) about what words are accentuated and why.

 

[BerlinRocks]

heu as i am here. who knows dead language? ancient greek???
what means "abstine et sustine"?? (it's a phonetik transcription of ancient greek)

 

[xmodel citizen]

^^ Yeah, the tense we learned was "preterite". So confusing! LOL, and it really annoys me because despite how I type, I'm actually quite anal retentive about grammar. I'm hardcore about usage and pronunciation, so not knowing the most basic tense is extremely hard for me

THanks so much for your help!

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

You're welcome xmodel citizen!

 

[Party.in.Paris]

I have an Italian exam soon...and I speak so bad
I need some help to translate something, is there a Italian speaker ??

 

[Ceptuouse]

Pashen'ka is

 

[stersita]

You(pl) went... - Ustedes fueron... Fueron al centro.

Isn't you(pl) went - vosotros fuisteis? Usted is like the formal way of calling someone... like vous is French?

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Ustedes (plural) is proper in Spain but not in most places in Latin America, in Argentina they say vos instead of tu (singular) and I think they say vosotros for the plural form, but I don't remember it being said anywhere else . I've never heard anyone I know who speak Spanish saying vosotros, exept people I know from Spain and two of them have adopted ustedes. Now, usted in singular is formal for tu, like vous in French, and I hear that one a lot.

 

[stersita]

Oh yeah vosotros is definitely a Spain thing, I know it's not used in Latin America. I was just wondering why you guys learn it that way, cause I had to learn the vosotros form for the you plural.

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Oh, in school I learned both ways too , ustedes and vosotros, and the different tenses of both, and my mom teaches both ways, but it's only mention when learning the verb tenses.

 

[stersita]

^Ohh ok I get you now

 

[Pashen'ka]

I have an Italian exam soon...and I speak so bad
I need some help to translate something, is there a Italian speaker ??

Yep!

 

[Pashen'ka]

heu as i am here. who knows dead language? ancient greek???
what means "abstine et sustine"?? (it's a phonetik transcription of ancient greek)

Nope, that's latin...

It means in french "supporte et abstiens-toi" and I think we could say that it's practically the opposite to the famous "carpe diem"...

 

[xmodel citizen]

Oh, in school I learned both ways too , ustedes and vosotros, and the different tenses of both, and my mom teaches both ways, but it's only mention when learning the verb tenses.

Yup! We learn both ways! It's actually pretty easy to remember, it's just like the nosotros form. This may be stupid, but how is Catalan different from Spanish? If you speak one, can you easily speak the other?

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Ooh, yo and usted are the same, that's new

Oh they have the same endings in past tense in verbs ending in ir, er, ar, but they don't mean the same. Usted is the formal form of tu (you singular). It denotes respect, like when addressing an elder, when meeting someone in professional situations, teachers, bosses..., but almost never with people of the same age or younger.
I'm not sure if you were saying their endings are the same in past tense, or that they mean the same.

 

[xmodel citizen]

^ I meant the endings for that particular set of verbs were the same. To Spanish speakers; what does "nos" mean?

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

"Nos" is a complementary indirect pronoun in 1st person plural.
It complements "nosotros", for example:
We left early - Nosotros nos fuimos temprano.
We left early - Nos fuimos temprano.
You can say it with or without "nosotros" and it's always follow by a verb.