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Need some help with Spanish...

Butterflybride Posted:

Need some help with Spanish...

I know 'I love you' is Te Amo, but what is 'We love you (both of you)' ? Please help! TIA!

jantany26 Posted:

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nosotros te queremos or nosotros te amamos

Butterflybride Posted:

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Posted by jantany26

nosotros te queremos or nosotros te amamos



Thank you!!!
Hallowedding Posted:

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Actually, don't use the 'te.' You can say 'Nosotros amamos alos dos' or 'Nosotros os amamos.'
'Te' is singular for a direct object pronoun while 'Os' is plural.

*This differs for different parts of the world. I learned Spanish in Argentina, so Latin American and Castillan Spanish might be different.*

But anyone else can feel free to correct me if you disagree.
jantany26 Posted:

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Posted by meishie

Actually, don't use the 'te.' You can say 'Nosotros amamos alos dos' or 'Nosotros os amamos.'
'Te' is singular for a direct object pronoun while 'Os' is plural.

*This differs for different parts of the world. I learned Spanish in Argentina, so Latin American and Castillan Spanish might be different.*

But anyone else can feel free to correct me if you disagree.



Well different countries say things in a different way but I should know because spanish is my first language, no offense.
swags1016 Posted:

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Posted by meishie

'Nosotros os amamos.'
'Te' is singular for a direct object pronoun while 'Os' is plural.

*This differs for different parts of the world. I learned Spanish in Argentina, so Latin American and Castillan Spanish might be different.*

But anyone else can feel free to correct me if you disagree.


Actually as a Spanish teacher I agree with you, but I thought it was just me so I didn't say anything but not every country uses OS or the vosotros form. So then couldn't it also be Nosotros les amamos?
jantany26 Posted:

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To say to a singular person you do use te or to say both of you, which I just read that then you say nosotros los queremos.

swags1016 Posted:

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Posted by jantany26

nosotros los queremos.




BIngo another winner.

Castallian is Nosotros os amamos

I think both are completely correct!! Knowing that roughly only 3 countries use the vosotros form or in this case the os Nosotros los queremos or Nosotros los amamos is 100000% correct too!
jantany26 Posted:

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Posted by swags1016


Posted by jantany26

nosotros los queremos.




BIngo another winner.

Castallian is Nosotros os amamos

I think both are completely correct!! Knowing that roughly only 3 countries use the vosotros form or in this case the os Nosotros los queremos or Nosotros los amamos is 100000% correct too!



I think mostly people in spain use os.
swags1016 Posted:

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Posted by jantany26


Posted by swags1016


Posted by jantany26

nosotros los queremos.




BIngo another winner.

Castallian is Nosotros os amamos

I think both are completely correct!! Knowing that roughly only 3 countries use the vosotros form or in this case the os Nosotros los queremos or Nosotros los amamos is 100000% correct too!



I think mostly people in spain use os.



Yup they are the main ones. I know areas of Argentina also use it too and Costa Rica (where I studied) uses their own forms at times.
jantany26 Posted:

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Posted by swags1016


Posted by jantany26


Posted by swags1016


Posted by jantany26

nosotros los queremos.




BIngo another winner.

Castallian is Nosotros os amamos

I think both are completely correct!! Knowing that roughly only 3 countries use the vosotros form or in this case the os Nosotros los queremos or Nosotros los amamos is 100000% correct too!



I think mostly people in spain use os.



Yup they are the main ones. I know areas of Argentina also use it too and Costa Rica (where I studied) uses their own forms at times.



That's so cool, I had no idea you were a spanish teacher.
swags1016 Posted:

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Yes but because I have been teaching basic Spanish for so many years I tend not to speak up about my Spanish. But I love the language!!!!!!!!!!!!

jantany26 Posted:

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That's great Jamie, I know you are an awesome teacher and you can teach spanish to your little one.
Hallowedding Posted:

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No offense taken jantanay26! I told people to correct me!

Argentine Spanish is derived from Castillan Spanish, so it can be totally different from what you know to be true too. Just as the English speakers from other English speaking countries have their own words, phrases, and sometimes grammar, so differs Spanish speaking countries. Everyone is right. (This also helps explain how my good friend who speaks Dominican Spanish failed it in high school... or maybe she's just a ditz, I don't know I love her anyway!)

If you only knew how confused I was when I first went down there! Their pronunciation is so different - it sounds almost French (I speak French, so that conufsed me even more!) - but it sounds so beautiful. (Similar to the sounds of Chilean or Uruguayan Spanish... so beautiful, too)

Some native speakers of *any* language often from practice or laziness might leave off vowel or consonant sounds and articles of speech and then when outsiders (even from another state) comes in they get all confused. We often figure it out from context or what it 'sounds like' it could mean.

Moral: Textbook learning is so different from immersion learning or native learning.
Moral 2: If you are speak a language different from the one spoken where you live, please teach it to your children! (I'm still upset that my mom didn't teach us Italian!)

My hippy nature of 'people of the world join hands and love one another' is very strong today.
jantany26 Posted:

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Posted by meishie

No offense taken jantanay26! I told people to correct me!

Argentine Spanish is derived from Castillan Spanish, so it can be totally different from what you know to be true too. Just as the English speakers from other English speaking countries have their own words, phrases, and sometimes grammar, so differs Spanish speaking countries. Everyone is right. (This also helps explain how my good friend who speaks Dominican Spanish failed it in high school... or maybe she's just a ditz, I don't know I love her anyway!)

If you only knew how confused I was when I first went down there! Their pronunciation is so different - it sounds almost French (I speak French, so that conufsed me even more!) - but it sounds so beautiful. (Similar to the sounds of Chilean or Uruguayan Spanish... so beautiful, too)

Some native speakers of *any* language often from practice or laziness might leave off vowel or consonant sounds and articles of speech and then when outsiders (even from another state) comes in they get all confused. We often figure it out from context or what it 'sounds like' it could mean.

Moral: Textbook learning is so different from immersion learning or native learning.
Moral 2: If you are speak a language different from the one spoken where you live, please teach it to your children! (I'm still upset that my mom didn't teach us Italian!)

My hippy nature of 'people of the world join hands and love one another' is very strong today.



I can imagine, people from argentina speak so fast sometimes.
It's all good, you learn new things everyday.

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