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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:20 pm
by madeofstaples
Alboin wrote:Hables en Inglés, por favor.
You mean either "Habla" (subject is tú) or "Hable" (subject is usted), or you mean to have a strange sentence.
Sorry, just procrastinating, don't mind me...
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:46 pm
by Alboin
madeofstaples wrote:You mean either "Habla" (subject is tú) or "Hable" (subject is usted)
I knew that was wrong!
I'm not too fluent in Spanish.
Yet, you learn something new everyday. Affirmative tú commands; I did'nt know about those....
So maybe more like:
"Habla tú en Inglés, por favor."
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:46 am
by madeofstaples
Alboin wrote:madeofstaples wrote:You mean either "Habla" (subject is tú) or "Hable" (subject is usted)
I knew that was wrong!
I'm not too fluent in Spanish.
Yet, you learn something new everyday. Affirmative tú commands; I did'nt know about those....
So maybe more like:
"Habla tú en Inglés, 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 tú form. The negative tú indicative is formed from the subjunctive tense, however ("No hables en Español"). Also, indirect and direct objects are attached to the affirmative indicative while placed in front of the negative indicative (i.e, "Dámelo" 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
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:51 pm
by piranha
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
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:59 pm
by Alboin
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?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:42 pm
by piranha
Hablas -> Speak
Ingles -> English
por favor -> please
so: Hablas Ingles, por favor -> Speak English, Please.
-JL
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:34 am
by madeofstaples
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.