llevar puesto

[laepelba]

Okay - so about Chileno's phrase "llevar puesto". What is the difference between when I would say "llevar" and when I would use "llevar puesto"? Would I say "Llevo puesto falda" like I would say "llevo falda"? Does it mean the same? Or is "llevo puesto" only used when the object is "se lo" or something?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by laepelba

Okay - so about Chileno's phrase "llevar puesto". What is the difference between when I would say "llevar" and when I would use "llevar puesto"? Would I say "Llevo puesto falda" like I would say "llevo falda"? Does it mean the same? Or is "llevo puesto" only used when the object is "se lo" or something?

Correct!

Llevo puesta una falda. --- La llevo puesta.

Llevo puestos unos zapatos --- Los llevo puestos.


Llevo puestos unos zapatos de ultima moda.

Llevo puesta una falda de una amiga.

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by chileno

Correct!

Llevo puesta una falda. --- La llevo puesta.

Llevo puestos unos zapatos --- Los llevo puestos.


Llevo puestos unos zapatos de ultima moda.

Llevo puesta una falda de una amiga.

But what's the difference? Is there a different sense to the different uses?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by chileno

Correct!

Llevo puesta una falda. --- La llevo puesta.

Llevo puestos unos zapatos --- Los llevo puestos.


Llevo puestos unos zapatos de ultima moda.

Llevo puesta una falda de una amiga.

Originally Posted by laepelba

But what's the difference? Is there a different sense to the different uses?

hmmm...

¿Qué llevas puesto? -- Llevo puesta una falda.

¿Dónde está la falda? -- La llevo puesta.

Is this better?

Hernán.
(fighting consciously grammar involved and like a cat against its back at that.)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

"Llevarse algo puesto" is when you buy it and you like it so much, that you wear it right away. "Llevar algo puesto" means you're wearing it.

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by chileno

hmmm...

¿Qué llevas puesto? -- Llevo puesta una falda.

¿Dónde está la falda? -- La llevo puesta.

Is this better?

Hernán.
(fighting consciously grammar involved and like a cat against its back at that.)

Thanks for re-wording it. It's starting to make some more sense to me. I'll keep noodling with it. (Without getting too gramatical! )

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Lou Ann: "llevarse algo puesto" is when you buy it and you like it so much, that you wear it right away. "Llevar algo puesto" means you're wearing it.

Thanks, Malila ... so the sense of using the "puesto" in the phrase is more of the immediate or the "now"....?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by laepelba

Thanks for re-wording it. It's starting to make some more sense to me. I'll keep noodling with it. (Without getting too gramatical! )

hopefully, as it will end by cracking you up!

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by laepelba

[...]
Thanks, Malila ... so the sense of using the "puesto" in the phrase is more of the immediate or the "now"....?

Yes, I guess so.

[laepelba]

I like you guys.

[poli]

Laepelba, I'm under the impression that you want to know the difference
between llevar and llevar puesto. If that's the case, the difference is quite easy to explain: they both mean the same thing. Llevar however means so many things including to wear. Llevar puesto makes sure the meaning is clear, because it cannot mean anything else but to wear.
Example: ¿Que llevas? means what are you wearing, but it might be something a Mexican vegetable monger may say as you pass their stall in a town market. Or it might mean what did you take. ¿Que llevas puesto? can only mean what are you wearing. So, if you wish to make the context clear say que llevas puesto