Compound prepositional objects

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67545)

If I want to say ".... with you and your family", does "contigo..." really work?

"Me encantaba pasar tiempo contigo y tu familia." ???

Originally Posted by ookami (Post 67555)

Taking into account your signature laepelba, here you would say "Me encantaba pasar tiempo con vos y tu familia." I think it's the only option lefting (creo que es la única opción que queda?)

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 67556)

Some corrections. Not all of Latin America uses el voseo. A mí me encanta vosear, pero son pocos los que lo saben por estos lares. :(

Originally Posted by ookami (Post 67562)

Thanks Rusty. Yes I know, with "here" I was referring to my country and I know that laepelba likes Uruguay, there it is used, and there are a lot of Argentinians living and travelling to Ur. with huge frequency (actually, I'm going there in less than a month), so I think it'll be usefull for her.

It's difficult to learn the "voseo"?
Ya sabés con quién practicar si querés.

Originally Posted by ookami (Post 67562)

... Is it difficult to learn the "voseo"?
Ya sabés con quién practicar si querés.

Originally Posted by ookami (Post 67555)

Taking in account your signature laepelba, here you would say "Me encantaba pasar tiempo con vos y tu familia." I think is the only option lefting (creo que es la única opción que queda?)

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 67556)

Some corrections. Not all of Latin America uses el voseo. A mí me encanta vosear, pero son pocos los que lo saben por estos lares. :(

Originally Posted by ookami (Post 67562)

Thanks Rusty. Yes I know, with "here" I was referring to my country and I know that laepelba likes Uruguay, there it is used, and there are a lot of Argentinians living and travelling to Ur. with huge frequency (actually, I'm going there in less than a month), so I think it'll be usefull for her.

It's difficult to learn the "voseo"?
Ya sabés con quién practicar si querés.

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67598)

What in the world are you people talking about!? I thought that vosotros was never used in Latin America? I haven't really been learning it for that reason.

And I specifically do not want to say "you (all)" (in the second person plural), I specifically want to say "with you (singular) and your family". How does "vos" fit into that??

And what in the world is "voseo", I thought that the object pronoun for "vosotros" was "vos" (like "nosotros" and "nos").

What!?

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67598)

And I specifically do not want to say "you (all)" (in the second person plural), I specifically want to say "with you (singular) and your family". How does "vos" fit into that??

And what in the world is "voseo", I thought that the object pronoun for "vosotros" was "vos" (like "nosotros" and "nos").

Originally Posted by bobjenkins (Post 67602)

Vosotros - os
(Vosotros) os sentís bienes (sentirse)
You all feel well

Originally Posted by pjt33 (Post 67605)

Voseo is the use of vos.

Vos is a second person singular (???) pronoun. It varies in usage: in Argentina it's informal, replacing tú (???), and has its own verb forms (!!!???). In Uruguay it's used alongside tú and usted, so there are three levels of formality (so three verb conjugations!!?? where is THAT on the charts?). It's also used without those verb forms in some other countries. In Spain it's rare and formal; I've only heard it once, when a child was trying to get me to do something and addressed me as vos to butter me up.

Para más información: http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBu...seo&origen=RAE

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67607)

Right, but I've been told that it's not used in Latin America. This is the first time I've heard of it. My best friend is Peruvian, and just this weekend she was telling someone else that "vosotros" is used in Spain, and "ustedes" is used in Latin America..........



I'm still confused. and that page is all in Spanish. I'm going to need to look for this information somewhere in English. It is the FIRST time I've heard that vosotros is both singular and plural. I honestly thought that vosotros was never used in Latin America. My Salvadoran friend told me that it's quite rude to use it, and that people will be very offended.

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!! :thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking: :thinking:

Originally Posted by bobjenkins (Post 67609)

Vos es diferente que vosotros

Vos es usado en lugares en latinoamericano y no en España , y vosotros es usado en España y no en latinoamericano:)

Espero que te ayude:)

PD.
Vosotros es plural como ustedes
Vos es singular como tú

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67607)

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67610)

If I'm going to Google this to try to read more about it (in English), what search string do I use to Google. "Vos" sounds a lot like the counterpart to "vosotros" to me (like "nos" and "nosotros"...)

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67598)

What in the world are you people talking about!? I thought that vosotros was never used in Latin America? I haven't really been learning it for that reason.

And I specifically do not want to say "you (all)" (in the second person plural), I specifically want to say "with you (singular) and your family". How does "vos" fit into that??

And what in the world is "voseo", I thought that the object pronoun for "vosotros" was "vos" (like "nosotros" and "nos").

What!?

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 67643)

Wow - this is totally new to me. Is this something that they don't teach in school Spanish in the US? I'm going to go Google it......

Originally Posted by Perikles (Post 67655)

I can't cope with this. It's bad enough trying to learn Spanish as spoken in Spain.....:D