Spanish SER and ESTAR into English
SER and ESTAR are wonderful Spanish verbs with which we can express nuances and subtleties, which prompt us to think how the poor English speakers manage with only the verb to be. But, as we have studied earlier in another post, the English-speaking peoples are very resourceful and cunny and noticed this problem right away. We all know they have envied Spaniards for centuries and so after much thinking they developed ways to circumvent and bypass the ESTAR and SER problem, so as not to be the less. Let us see: Spanish: SOY interesante ESTOY interesado English: I am interesting I am interested Spanish: SOY aburrido ESTOY aburrido English: I am boring I am bored Spanish: ES divertido ESTÁ divertido English: He is amusing He is amused Spanish: ES sorprendente ESTÁ sorprendido It is shocking He is shocked and more with exciting, embarrassing, frightening, confusing, depressing, terrifying and horrifying. (N.B. This short article has been written in a spirit o...