Amos 9 13 15 Español

[Brian]

Thisseems very problematic for the non-native speaker, since it implies one must wait to hear the entire sentence to get the tense the speaker intends, or, there is no time-sensitive context in the sentence. There must be a better way, since hundreds of millions of people around the world speak Spanish.

When I asked this question, the answer I was hoping for was the answer a Spanish instructor would give in a Latin country. I assumed that even for native speakers, a formal pedagogical approach to resolving ambiguous verb endings was taught in school, and that curious students would ask the question much as I have. Perhaps that just shows how naive non-native learners are?

(3) Allow yourself to live with a bit more ambiguity than comes naturally to you (I myself have a bit of trouble taking this approach to life sometimes -- it can be interesting to experiment with this a bit; and such a change can carry over psychologically in a beneficial way to other realms)

Note that an efficient, common way of indicating that the past tense is intended is to add a one-syllable adverb that puts the verb into the past: ya, which has a literal meaning of "already," but which is often used just as a way of situating the context somewhere in the past. Example:

Mi esposa y yo estamos viviendo aparte por un tiempo por cuestin de trabajo. Antes de las vacaciones tratbamos de tener una llamada justo despus de cenar, todos los das. Pero ltimamente ya no lo estamos logrando de manera regular, por una u otra causa. Sin embargo ayer s, pegamos en el clavo. Mi hijo y yo marcamos su nmero a las 7 y conversamos con ella por media hora.

Me sorprend de recibir otra llamada de mi esposa a las 9. Mi hijo se acababa de dormir cuando son el telfono. Cuando o su voz, coment: "Pero ya hablamos hoy. Hay algn problema?" Su respuesta: "Tranquilo, todo est bien, noms quera chequear mi idea de regalo de cumpleaos, te parece bien si compro el segundo libro de Harry Potter?" Yo respond: "Qu bien que chequeas conmigo! Ya lo compramos el sbado cuando estbamos en la librera. Ya llevamos tres captulos. Quiz sera buena idea que compraras el tercero. Por qu no veo maana y pasado maana qu tanto le est gustando, y luego chequeamos otra vez el fin de semana?"

There really isn't any confusion. Consider that in English there are many verbs that have identical past and present forms (hit, for instance), but that doesn't cause much if any issue (most English speakers aren't even aware that there are verbs that act like that). While it's true in an isolated sentence you need to have additional information, in a conversation, tenses don't tend to rapidly switch at random, and are generally in response to some other statement or question. If the previous sentence was in the past, you can generally assume the next sentence to also be in the past.

In england the lady that looks after the home while her husband goes out towork is known as a housewife and in spain she is la ama de la casa but if the spanish couple both went out to work and employed a lady to look after the homeI think the lady would be called la ama de la casa so therfore it is the name of the occupation, so ama de la casa = housekeeper.

I have heard of amo de la casa, head of the household so perhaps it is anothername for owner which pluralised would be amos = owners as Q as just postedI think more common tanslation of owner is dueo other than that it could havebeen spelled wrong and should have been "amas" and not amos which would then make it second person of the verb amar but without context we are justguessing so, what was the context? if for example it was Me amas? it would mean:Do you love me? or !S me amas, yes you do love me.

There are also specific rules on adding accent marks to the original verb forms, so pay attention to the explanations and examples in each section below. For a general lesson on accent marks in Spanish, including a section on adding them to the command form when used in conjunction with object pronouns, we have a detailed post on Spanish accent marks.

When adding direct and indirect object pronouns, there are some important differences between adding just one or both pronouns to our action. In addition to the use of the indirect object pronoun se that we discussed above, the other important detail is whether or not we remove the final -s of the conjugated verb before adding the object pronouns.

This process is similar to the affirmative commands we saw above that are conjugated in the subjunctive form, although we only add an accent mark in cases where we have two object pronouns.

When we replace both objects with direct and indirect object pronouns, the principle is the same. The indirect object pronoun must always go before the direct object pronoun, and we add an accent mark to maintain the correct stress pattern of the word. Here, we add the accent mark to the last syllable of the infinitive, which becomes the third-to-last syllable of the compound word with its two object pronouns attached. The same rule applies regarding the indirect object pronoun becoming se.

Again, remember that vamos a + infinitive commands are used for affirmative nosotros commands only. For negative nosotros commands, we always use the subjunctive form that we looked at in the previous section.

First of all, we learned that nosotros commands in Spanish are a valuable tool for suggesting actions to be performed as a group. We saw that there are two types of Spanish nosotros commands: the imperative mood and vamos a + infinitive commands.

We learned that the Spanish imperative mood, which is used for giving orders, suggestions, or requests, uses the same nosotros conjugation as the present subjunctive. This subjunctive conjugation is used for both affirmative and negative commands.

Finally, we provided a nice list of practical nosotros commands in Spanish that you can use in various contexts to improve your conversations and have more natural interactions with Spanish speakers.

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