2.22: Gramática- Estar + emociones
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- Erica Brown, Alejandra Escudero, María Cristina Montoya, & Elizabeth Small
- SUNY Oneonta via OER SUNY
Objetivos
- Identify how estar is used with adjectives to describe conditions and emotions
Gramática: “Estar” con emociones
In this lesson you will learn to describe emotions and states using adjectives after estar .
Before we go forward, let’s take a quick refresher on the present indicative conjugation of this irregular verb.
| Estar ( to be ) | ||
| 1a | estoy | estamos |
| 2a | estás | estáis |
| 3a | está | están |
Like the adjectives used with ser , these adjectives must agree with the noun that they modify and will require appropriate changes for gender and number.
¿Cómo estás hoy?
Estar is used with descriptive adjectives to talk about emotional conditions and states of being .
- Ana está muy content a y tranquil a . ( Ana is very happy and calm. )
Note the changes based on gender and number in the following:
- Tomás está content o y tranquil o. ( Tomás is happy and calm. )
- Nosotros estamos content os y tranquil os . ( We are happy and calm [if we keep saying it, it’ll come true…])
- Tomás y su hermano están sorprendid os . ( Tomás and his brother are surprised. )
- ¿Por qué estáis vosotras preocupad as ? ( Why are you worried? – asking a group of all females, informally, in Spain)
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