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¿Cómo estamos?
What are the implications of using this to ask someone how they are. I know it literally means "How are we?"
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It depends on the context. It may imply that the answer affects you or concerns you more than what's usual. It might be a trick to promote empathic reactions, the same way a bum addressing you "guvnor" or some people from one or two Spanish speaking regions calling you "amigo".
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This is only by ear but I think ¿a cómo estamos? may mean what is today's date. I may be wrong, so please wait for a native speaker to confirm this.
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Have a look at my post no. 5 on this thread. That is one way of using it (although it doesn't follow that it applies elsewhere).
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Hay cosas que se oyen pero que no deben repetirse
![]() Perikles se me anticipó... el evitar definir si tú o si usted en un uso muy común en todas partes, pero no el principal.
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![]() @Caballero: In many ocassions, that use of "nosotros" implies some solidarity or empathy. For example, when you visit a friend at the hospital and ask "¿Cómo estamos?", it's obviously not an alternative to "tú"/"usted", but it's rather expressing you feel for them and you hope they're doing better. If you say hello to a group of close friends and ask "¿Cómo estamos?", somehow you're asking them all how they are doing while expressing you feel a part of that group and that you feel identified with them.
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![]() I don't think I've heard, let alone used, "¿cómo estamos?" in Spanish, but I would say that yes, it's close to the English term. ![]()
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![]() (By the way - it's not often I could correct your English - the underlined is interesting ![]() Anyway, this is not how it comes across with cómo estamos here in Tenerife, when there is clearly an awkwardness about using formal or informal. |
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![]() ![]() Thank you!!! ![]()
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"ask that to their patients" sounds natural to me
ask their patients that sounds even better
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