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| ¿Cuántas? | How many? (feminine plural) | hay | there are or are there | ||
| (las) personas | people | (la) familia | family | ||
| ¿Cómo? | How? or What? | tu | your (familiar) | ||
| somos | we are | en | in | ||
| mi | my | tenemos | we have | ||
| todos | all | usamos | we use | ||
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To ask about people and family relationships |
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To discuss how many are in someone's family: |
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¿Cuántas personas hay en tu familia? | How many people are in your family? | |||
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En mi familia somos ____ personas. | There are ___ people in my family. | Literally: In my family we are __ people. | ||
| En mi familia somos cinco personas. | There are five people in my family. | Fill in the blank with a number. | |||
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To discuss what families are like: |
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¿Cómo es tu familia? | What is your family like? | |||
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Somos ___. Tenemos ____. Usamos ___. |
We are ____. We have ___. We use (wear) ___. |
Somos would be followed by a
one or more masculine, plural adjectives.
Tenemos would be followed by one or more nouns with descriptive adjectives. Usamos is a more limited verb by would require a noun or nouns. |
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| Somos
altos y traviesos. Tenemos ojos azules. Usamos lentes. |
We are tall and mischievous. We have blue eyes. We wear glasses. |
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To discuss what one person is like: |
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¿Cómo es ____? | What is ____ like? | The blank could be filled in with one proper name or the word for a particular relative. | ||
| ¿Cómo es tu
madre? ¿Cómo es Rosa? ¿Cómo es tu hermana? |
What is your mother like? What is Rosa like? What is your sister like? |
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Es ____. | He/she is ____. | The subject of es can be él or ella. The nouns or adjectives following the verb es must agree with the subject, i.e. él is masculine and ella is feminine. | ||
| Es mi amigo/a. Es sordo/a. Tiene dos hijos. |
He/she is my friend. He/she is deaf. He/she has two children. |
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"Language is at the core of human existence. Through language we express the hopes and dreams we hold for our families, our state and our nation. The ability to communicate in a second language enables us to know the hopes, dreams and visions of others around the world."
