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Old March 12, 2012, 05:42 PM
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Yet another question about 'yet'

I've just heard Antiques Roadshow's expert Geoffrey Munn describing an piece of jewellery in a positive way but describing the revolting contents such pieces used to have inside in the past, and while doing this he said to the owner "Are you worried yet?".

My question is about that "yet" and how in may modify somehow the tense. I mean, does that "yet" imply that the worry is 100% there ("¿Ya está preocupada?") or does it rather indicate that it's an incipient process ("¿Ya se está preocupando?")?
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Old March 12, 2012, 05:45 PM
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I've just heard Antiques Roadshow's expert Geoffrey Munn describing an piece of jewellery in a positive way but describing the revolting contents such pieces used to have inside in the past, and while doing this he said to the owner "Are you worried yet?".

My question is about that "yet" and how in may modify somehow the tense. I mean, does that "yet" imply that the worry is 100% there ("¿Ya está preocupada?") or does it rather indicate that it's an incipient process ("¿Ya se está preocupando?")?

Para mí significa la primera.
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Just to clarify:
Are you worried yet?= ¿has llegado al punto de preoccupacion?

Are you still worried= ¿todavía estás preocudado?
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Thank you. So it's more like "¿Ya se ha preocupado?" in the sense of "su inquietud ha ido creciendo y acaba de convertirse en preocupación", isn't it?
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Thank you. So it's more like "¿Ya se ha preocupado?" in the sense of "su inquietud ha ido creciendo y acaba de convertirse en preocupación", isn't it?
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Thank you. I think this is the kind of phrase a translator tailor according to context: "¿Comenzó a preocuparse?", "Lo noto preocupado", "Ya se me está preocupando", and many more.
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