Spanish

madeofstaples · Post by **madeofstaples** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:20 pm

Alboin wrote:Hables en InglÃ©s, por favor.

You mean either "Habla" (subject is tÃº) or "Hable" (subject is usted), or you mean to have a strange sentence.

Sorry, just procrastinating, don't mind me...

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:46 pm

madeofstaples wrote:You mean either "Habla" (subject is tÃº) or "Hable" (subject is usted)

I knew that was wrong!

I'm not too fluent in Spanish.

Yet, you learn something new everyday. Affirmative tÃº commands; I did'nt know about those....

So maybe more like:

"Habla tÃº en InglÃ©s, por favor."

madeofstaples · Post by **madeofstaples** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:46 am

Alboin wrote:
madeofstaples wrote:You mean either "Habla" (subject is tÃº) or "Hable" (subject is usted)
I knew that was wrong! I'm not too fluent in Spanish.

Yet, you learn something new everyday. Affirmative tÃº commands; I did'nt know about those....

So maybe more like:

"Habla tÃº en InglÃ©s, por favor."

I'm a little rusty and have forgotten a lot of vocabulary. I only took spanish when I was in highschool because it was interesting.

Here's a quick, hopefully correct, spanish lesson since I'm not asleep right now

Indicatives (commands) are formed mostly from the subjunctive tense, with the exception of the affirmative tÃº form. The negative tÃº indicative is formed from the subjunctive tense, however ("No hables en EspaÃ±ol"). Also, indirect and direct objects are attached to the affirmative indicative while placed in front of the negative indicative (i.e, "DÃ¡melo" and "No me lo des" for "Give it to me" and "Don't give it to me", respectively).

Check out http://verbix.com/languages/spanish.shtml

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:51 pm

Well, so far everyone here is wrong:

To say "Speak in English please"
You say: "Hablas Ingles, por favor"
The conjugation (how do you spell that?) for Tu (You) is -as, because Hablar is an -ar verb.

-JL

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:59 pm

I believe 'Hablas Inglais' would be 'You speak Spanish', as in you do speak in Spanish, no? I think we were going for the command form, as madeofstaples explained, that is, 'Speak in English'.

Estoy loco?

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:42 pm

Hablas -> Speak
Ingles -> English
por favor -> please
so: Hablas Ingles, por favor -> Speak English, Please.

-JL

madeofstaples · Post by **madeofstaples** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:34 am

piranha wrote:Hablas -> Speak
Ingles -> English
por favor -> please
so: Hablas Ingles, por favor -> Speak English, Please.

-JL

No.

Hablas means "You speak", "You do speak", or "You are speaking." It is the present indicative conjugation of Hablar.

To tell someone to do something is a different construction, which mostly uses the present subjunctive conjugations.