Part 1 Flashcards
Soy Lis.
I am Lis.
Soy is the first person singular (ie, “I”) of ser, meaning “to be”. There are two ways to say “to be”: ser and estar. Ser is used with names.
Buenos días.
Good morning/day.
Bueno is an adjective meaning “good”, and buenos is in plural as Spanish adjectives “decline”, meaning they change (plural vs singular, masculine vs feminine). Días means “days”. Why is this plural? No one seems to know…
Buenas tardes
Good afternoon
Buenas is now a feminine, plural adjective, to match tardes, which is feminine.
The same concept here, but because tarde is feminine, buenas uses a feminine ending.
Hasta luego
Goodbye
Hasta is literally “until”, and luego is “later”, so this is literally “until later”. Notice that the h is not pronounced – h is always silent when it starts a word in Spanish.
Nos vemos
See you later
Vemos comes from the verb ver, meaning “to see”. Nos vemos literally means “we see each other” – understood in English to mean “we’ll see each other”.
This is a standard way of saying “goodbye”, meaning literally “we see each other”. You’ll hear it incredibly often, and it’s a nice standard way of adding to hasta luego.
¿Cómo te llamas?
Llamar means “to call”, and this phrase uses llamarse – a reflexive verb (indicated by the se at the end). It literally means “I call myself”.
You’ll come across a lot of reflexive verbs, so it’s good to get some phrases under your belt early so you have a grasp of how they work.
¡Feliz año nuevo!
Happy New Year!
¿Cómo estás?
How are you?
¿Cómo te ha ido?
How are you?
¿Cómo te encuentras?
How are you?
Estoy bien
I’m good/fine
Creo que está bien/mal
I think it’s good/bad
Como yo lo veo
As I see it (imo)
Me parece que
It seems to me
Me gusta
I like
