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"Ya" + future tense
For example: "ya te lo contaré todo" means something like "I will tell you everything". Right?
Also "ya te diré", right? It is my understanding that "ya + future tense" is an idiomatic usage that is difficult to translate. Correct? Can someone give me some more examples of this construction with approximate translations? THANKS!!
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"Ya" is a handy word, which usually means "already", "now"... but it's often not translated.
¡Ya llegué! I'm (already) home! Ya le dije que no quiero hablar con él. I have already told him I don't want to talk to him. ¡Ya cállate! Shut up (now)! When used with a future tense, it may be translated by "then". Ya te diré. I will tell you about it then. (When the time is right.) Ya te lo contaré todo. I will tell you all about it. Ya se verá / Ya veremos. We will see about it.
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Thanks, Malila! That's exactly what I was looking for and more. I always thought that "ya" meant "already", but I've noticed that it is used much more than I would ever say "already" (or even "now"). But I'm starting to get a sense of how it is used, and am always on the lookout for usages of it that I wasn't expecting (like this one). It's a fun word.
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Yes. It comes from the Latin iam, now, already, and has a function oddly similar to German ja, which doesn't.
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Ya dejen de estar jugando.
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???
I assume "dejen" is subjunctive for "dejar", right? Help! I don't understand. Ayudame! No te entiendo!
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Subjunctive third person plural, here used for plural imperative. (In Spain it would be "dejad" but Chileno uses ustedes rather than vosotros).
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So, does it mean "Y'all stop playing around"?
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Isn't it "All y'all stop playing around"? I thought "y'all" was singular. Or is that only in Texas?
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Yes.
Dejen/dejad (ustedes/vosotros) de jugar, ya. |
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