{"id":43,"date":"2015-09-28T20:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/spanish1oli\/?post_type=chapter&p=43"},"modified":"2015-10-14T20:20:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T20:20:06","slug":"funciones-identificar-personas-y-cosas-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/chapter\/funciones-identificar-personas-y-cosas-1\/","title":{"raw":"Identificar personas y cosas","rendered":"Identificar personas y cosas"},"content":{"raw":" \r\n\r\nAnother basic skill in any language is the ability to identify people and thingsto describe your physical appearance and personality and those of others, and to describe things. Spanish, requires the verb ser<\/span><\/span> to perform many of these tasks.\r\n\r\nThe verb ser<\/span> has several different uses in Spanish. One of the most common uses of ser<\/span> is to identify things, animals, and people. See the examples below.\r\n
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Iris<\/td>\r\n\"Play \u00bfQui\u00e9n es \u00e9l?<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Raquel<\/td>\r\n\"Play Es Ra\u00fal.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"a\r\n
<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Iris<\/td>\r\n\"Play \u00bfQu\u00e9 es esto?<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Raquel<\/td>\r\n\"Play Es un libro.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\n\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"240\"]\"a Foto: Paco Vila CC BY-SA 2.0[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Identificar personas y cosas<\/h2>\r\nSer<\/span> is also used to describe physical and psychological features.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"240\"]\"a Foto: Giorgia Friscia CC BY-NC-ND 2.0[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
<\/div>\r\n\"Play Soy baja.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n\"Play \u00c9l es guapo.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n\"Play Rosa es rubia.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n\"Play Ellos son inteligentes.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\nBelow, you can see and hear some examples of how ser<\/span> is used to identify and to describe:\r\n
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