Monday, August 17, 2015

Ella es ...

After talking about he, let's talk about she.

Ella (She) es (is) ... (click on the link for sound)

So you can say

Ella es una niña (She is a girl).

Él es ...

We talked about 'you', how about a third person?

Él (He) es (is) ... (click on the link for sound)

So you can say

Él es un hombre (He is a man).

Of course, gender need to match, it would be crazy to say, or that maybe fine but I don't know?

Él es una mujer (He is a woman) ... what?

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Usted es ...

Last time we talk about Tú eres as an informal way of addressing you. Now we learn something different.

Usted (You, formal) es (are) ... (click on the link for sound)

So you can say

Usted es un hombre (You are a man).


Friday, August 14, 2015

Tú eres

Last time we talked about yo, it is all about me, now let's talk about you

(you, informal) eres (are) ...

Like it or not, there are many ways to talk about you in Spanish. T is an informal way of addressing 'you'.

So if you wanted to say "You are a man", you would say

Tú eres un hombre


Thursday, August 13, 2015

Yo soy ...

All the words involved so far in the Duolingo lesson one does not form a full sentence. Today we add these words in front of it to complete the sentence

Yo (I) soy (am) ... (click on the link for sound)

So if I wanted to say I am a man, I would say

Yo soy un hombre

Similarily, if I wanted to say I am a girl, I would say

Yo soy una niña

This concludes lesson 1 on Duolingo

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

una

So un niña is wrong, so how do we say about it?

una (a) niña (girl)

of course, you can also say "una mujer".

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

un

Just like in English we have "a" and "the", in Spanish

un is an indefinite article, meaning "a", for masculine nouns (click on the link for sound)

You can use it with the words we have already learn

un hombre (a man)
un niño (a boy)

un can only be used with masculine nouns, so un niña is not correct, because niña is feminine.

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