Soy mal o estoy mal

[Bobina de cabeza]

Saludos y buenas tardes. Soy nuevo en el idioma español.

I hope someone can set me straight. I was goofing off with the Google translator and got confused.

Google translator tells me:
Soy mal = I am wrong
Estoy mal = I am evil

That doesn't jive with my understanding of the difference between Ser and Estar. I read the Ser vs Estar thread and I think that google has it backwards. Being wrong seems like a changeable characteristic whereas being evil seems like a definitive characteristic.

[CrOtALiTo]

Hello, I bid you welcome.

But I can recommending you that you create one introduce for yourself in other forum.

[Rusty]

Escrito originalmente por Bobina de cabeza

Google translator tells me:
Soy mal = I am wrong
Estoy mal = I am evil

You're right. The translator has it wrong. Avoid the machine translators!

Soy mal = I am bad (characteristic) = I'm evil
Estoy mal = I'm not feeling well = I'm wrong


Welcome to the forums!

[Bobina de cabeza]

Thanks Rusty and CrOtALiTo for the kind welcomes.

Rusty: Thanks for confirming that Google had it wrong. I will indeed avoid those machine translators.... except for jokes. Nothing better than a badly translated joke.

[Rusty]

No problem.

I appreciate jokes with good translations, actually. Always remember that some jokes are only a play on words. Those seldom translate well across languages.

[sosia]

Soy malo = I am bad (characteristic) = I'm evil
Estoy mal/malo= I'm not feeling well = I'm wrong

Saludos

[irmamar]

Escrito originalmente por sosia

Soy malo = I am bad (characteristic) = I'm evil
Estoy mal/malo= I'm not feeling well = I'm wrong

Saludos

I'm not sure, but I think that "wrong" means "equivocado"

I'm not feeling well = I'm ill / badly= estoy mal (malo is more colloquial), me encuentro mal (now)
I'm bad = soy malo (always)

[CrOtALiTo]

Estoy mal.

I'm bad.

Yo mismo estoy mal.

I'm bad myself.

Me siento mal.

I don't feeling fine.

I hope to be well with theses examples about it.

[irmamar]

Escrito originalmente por CrOtALiTo

Estoy mal.

I'm bad.

Yo mismo estoy mal.

I'm bad myself.

Me siento mal.

I don't feeling fine.

I hope to be well with theses examples about it.

"Am I bad" or "am I badly"? This word makes me always feel confused. I think this is badly,but I'm not sure.

[CrOtALiTo]

Escrito originalmente por irmamar

"Am I bad" or "am I badly"? This word makes me always feel confused. I think this is badly,but I'm not sure.

I think the same to you.

I'm badly.

Estoy mal.


I believe that in the school I was badly with the test, therefore I believe that I won't get A in my test...