soy vs estoy in Spanish please
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My Spanish teacher in school taught us “how you feel and where you are, always use the verb estar”
I always remember these rhymes from school:
The verb SER “To Be”,
expresses quality,
time, possession, and identity.
How you feel and where you are is when you use the verb ESTAR
They said in Spanish!!! Jeez ppl can’t read. I got you…
Soy significa “Yo soy” de manera permanente. Soy alto. Me llamo Jaime.
Estoy significa “Yo soy” de una manera transitiva.
Tengo frío, estoy feliz, estoy aquí. Pienso en la soja como “yo soy” y estoy como “estoy siendo”.
Soy = I am always.
Estoy = I am currently.
I am currently upset, cold, hungry, but I’m not always.
I am always human, worrdragon, American. I’m currently those things too, but that sounds weird to say in English, right?
Well, it is in Spanish too.
I like to think of ser as describing WHAT something is, and estar as HOW something is.
The permanent/temporary comparison doesn’t work in a lot of cases.
“How you feel and where you are is when you use the verb estar” is how I was taught to remember but I learned that years ago so I may be misremembering
i know the difference when i have to explain it in dutch because we use these differences in words but english has a less complicated structure. maybe thats why some have a hard time knowing the differences
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