Spanish for Music Lovers
Todos juntos
los Jaivas
ChileHace mucho tiempo
que yo
vivo preguntándome
para qué la Tierra
es tan redonda y una sola no más.
Si vivimos todos separados
para qué son el cielo y el mar
para qué este sol que nos alumbra si no lo queremos
ni mirar.
hace que + (time expression) it's been (time) since
mucho much, a lot of
tiempo time
que that
vivir to live vivo I live vivimos we
live
preguntar to ask preguntando asking
para for para qué what for, why, to what end
tierra earth
tan so
redondo / redonda round
solo alone
más more, no más only, just, merely
si if
todos all, everyone
cielo sky, heaven
el mar sea
este this
el sol sun
nos us (direct & indirect obj. pronoun)
alumbrar to illuminate
lo it, him (direct object pronoun)
no . . . ni not even
mirar to look at
querer (e --> ie) to love,
to want to, to love
Tantas penas
que nos van llevando
a todos al final
cuántas noches,
cada noche de ternura
tendremos que dar.
tantas so many
pena pain, trouble, effort, sorrow
que that
nos us (direct & indirect object pronoun)
ir, van to go, are going
llevar to carry, llevando carrying
todos all, everyone
al final in the end, to the end
cuántas, cuántos how many
la noche night el día day
cada each, every (always ends with -a, never -o)
de of
ternura tenderness, affection
tener
que to have to tendremos que we'll have to (future)
dar
to give
Para qué vivir tan separados
si la Tierra nos quiere juntar
si este mundo es uno y para todos
todos juntos vamos a vivir.
para for para qué what for, why, to what end
vivir to live vivo I live vivimos
we live
tan so
si if
tierra earth
nos us
este this
mundo earth, world
para for
todos everyone
juntos together
ir a to be going to
Ejercicio: ¿ser
o estar?
Ejercicio: pronombres y otras palabras
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Pronouns
for first and second person singular (intimate)
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I
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you
(friend, sibling, roommate) |
tú |
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me |
me (direct & indirect object)
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you
(direct & indirect object) |
te |
mí |
me (object of preposition)
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you
(object of preposition) |
tí |
mi |
my
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your
(singular familiar) |
tu |
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estar
to be (condition or location)
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| yo |
estoy |
I am |
| tú |
estás |
you are (familiar singular) |
| él, ella Usted |
está |
he, she, it is you are (formal singular) |
| nosotr- os/as |
estamos |
we are |
| vosotr- os/as |
estáis |
you are (Spain-familiar plural) |
| ellos, ellas, Ustedes |
están |
they are you (plural) are |
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ir
(e --> ie) to go, going to . . .
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| yo |
voy |
I go | nosostros nosotras |
vamos |
we go, are going |
| tú |
vas |
you (singular familar) go | vosotros vosotras |
vais |
you (pl. fam. Sp.) are going |
| él, ella Usted |
va |
he, she, it is going you are going (formal singular) |
ellos, ellas, Ustedes |
van |
they go, are going you (plural) are going, go |
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querer
(e --> ie) to love, to want to (depends on context)
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| quiero | I love, I want to | quiere | he/she/it loves, wants to | queremos | we want to, we love | quieren | they / you (pl.) want to, love |
| querré | I will love | querrá | he/she/it will love | querremos | we will want to | querréies | you (pl. fam. Sp.) wanted to |
| quise | I loved | quisiste | you (informal) loved | quisimos | we wanted to | quisieron | they / you (plural) wanted to |
| quiso | he/she/it loved you (formal) loved |
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ser
to be (characteristic)
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| yo |
soy |
I am |
| tú |
eres |
you are (familiar singular) |
| él, ella Usted |
es |
he, she, it is you are (formal singular) |
| nosotr- os/as |
somos |
we are |
| vosotr- os/as |
sois |
you are (Spain-familiar plural) |
| ellos, ellas, Ustedes |
son |
they are you (plural) are |
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