"Ya"

[satchrocks]

I looked at the dictionary entry for "ya." http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/ya

Is there any English word even comparable?

Por ejemplo
Ya lo veo = I see
Voy para ya = I'm going over there (I belive)

Is there any rule about "ya" at all, or is it just one of those things that I have to get used to?

[poli]

Originally Posted by satchrocks

I looked at the dictionary entry for "ya." http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/ya

Is there any English word even comparable?

Por ejemplo
Ya lo veo = I see
Voy para ya = I'm going over there (I belive)Voy para alla

Is there any rule about "ya" at all, or is it just one of those things that I have to get used to?

Ya lo ver=now I see
Ya no=not anymore.
Ya often means enough,
Ya also means: stop it

Ya lo veo
Ya lo entiendo
¿ya entiendes?

[lee ying]

well。 you could use already. we already know: ya sabemos. I already did. Am I right?

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by lee ying

well。 you could use already. we already know: ya sabemos. I already did. Am I right?

Lee ying, if is true that the word already is ya in Spanish, but anyhow you can't use that word in all the sentences. For example.


Ya termine de comer.

I finish to eat.

sound better than to say Already I finish to eat.


I hope you can understand the different between they two.

[irmamar]

Sometimes, "ya" is a synonimous of "sí":

- ¿Lo entiendes?
- Ya (or ya, ya)

Even, sometimes one can say:

- ¿Lo entiendes?
- No, ya. (o sea, sí)

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes' it's right Irmamar you could to explain better the that I tried to explain yesterday.


Thank you.

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Sometimes, "ya" is a synonimous of "sí":

- ¿Lo entiendes?
- Ya (or ya, ya)

Even, sometimes one can say:

- ¿Lo entiendes?
- No, ya. (o sea, sí)

Gracias buena información,
No estoy seguro de que como pronunciar "ya"
Pienso que es como /jah/, no /yah/

Muchas gracias amigos

[CrOtALiTo]

You can pronoun the word of the following way.


Already- Ya (ia)

I hope this can help you.


Como el Karateca ia-ia-ia.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Bob: "y", when it's placed before a vowel sounds like English "y" in "yet".

[hermit]

aprendi mi espanol en la republica dominicana, y me acuerdo de que por alla era comun pronunciarla como 'jah' - tambien la 'll'.

mas tarde, estudiando en la universidad, todos mis profesores la pronunciaban como 'ya', inclusive un profesor muy bueno que era
de la habana.

hermit

[chileno]

It all depends...

If the Spanish speaker is from Central America up to Mexico and probably Northern South America, the letter Y and LL are pronounced softly. To my Chilean ears, calle is pronounced cáie, whereas South American, to my knowledge, from Peru down south including Uruguay and Argentina will pronounce more like in Spain, very strong, calle becomes caye (in English cajeh)

In Bolivia they will pronounce calle as cálhie