¶ Intro / Opening
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So move on to Monday.com. Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Yo soy Anabel. My name is Anabel. And I am very happy to be in this episode with you. Here at Coffee Break Spanish, we are enjoying working on our next podcast series for you. But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mini lesson. If this happens to be the very first episode of Coffee Break Spanish you are listening to, Perfecto. Perfecto.
¶ Mastering Estar for Location
Now, as this episode, I am very excited because I'm bringing you a very nice topic. As you know, the verb to be can be a bit tricky in Spanish because we have... two verbs, ser and estar. You may have learned that estar is used for location, and you are correct. However, What if I tell you we use ser for location to? No te preocupes, porque tendrá sentido. Don't worry, because all will make sense at the end of this episode. Then, as you may know, we use estar to locate people and things.
In this sentence, we are locating a thing. We are locating the library. ¿Dónde está la biblioteca? Where is the library? So to locate a thing, in this case it's a building, we use estar. Another example is los documentos. Estaban en el cajón. Here again we locate a thing. Los documentos. Estaban. They were. The documents were. So with these two examples, we can see that we use estar to locate. Then why am I saying that we also use ser?
¶ When to Use Ser for Events
for location this is going to happen when we are locating an event so if we have an event and it is not people or things we are locating events in the world Then we are going to be using SER. Pero no te preocupes, vamos a ver algunos ejemplos. Don't worry, because we are going to see some examples. The first one is... La reunión será en el despacho del jefe. La reunión será. Here we are using the verb ser. Because is la reunión, the meeting.
This is an event, so we must use SER for the location. La reunión será en el despacho del jefe. The meeting will be or will take place in the boss's office. Reunion and event, so we must use SER. Another example is La fiesta fue en el Jardín de Clara. The first thing that we need to know about this is that Fue is the praetory tense of the verb ser. So, la fiesta fue en el jardín de Clara means the party was in Clara's garden. La fiesta...
It's the party, and this is an event, so we must use ser. Then fiesta, reunión, boda, which is a wedding, all of them are events. And remember that if we want to locate an event, we must use ser. Perfecto. I love practicing. I think that's the best way to consolidate what we have learned. So I prepared a quick exercise for you.
¶ Practice and Core Concepts Recap
I'm going to say a sentence in English and I want you to decide if we are going to use estar or ser. If you feel confident, you can also translate the whole sentence. So, ¡vamos allá! The first one is... The book is on the table. Do we use ser or estar? Así es. Usamos estar. We have to use ESTAR because we are locating a thing. El libro está sobre la mesa. The book is on the table. Using ESTAR to locate things. Vamos a por el siguiente. The next one.
The concert is in the Central Park. Ser or estar. Efectivamente. The concert is an event, so it has to be ser. El concierto es en el Parque Central. The concert is in the Central Park. ¡Fantástico! Let's do one more. This time the sentence is, the date will be at a restaurant. The date will be at a restaurant. Buen trabajo. The date is an event, so we are using SER. ¿La cita será en un restaurante?
The date will be at a restaurant. La cita será. Fantástico. Then remember, estar is used to locate people or things in the world. And ser... is used to locate events. Fantastico! Now, don't forget to subscribe wherever you are listening to this episode for more content like this one. Also, if you would like to keep improving your Spanish, you can receive regular free mini lessons straight to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter. Just go to Coffee Break Languages.
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