{"id":1303,"date":"2019-06-17T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-spanish1\/?post_type=chapter&p=1303"},"modified":"2019-09-18T20:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:08:38","slug":"introduction-to-como-estas","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-spanish1\/chapter\/introduction-to-como-estas\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?","rendered":"Introduction to \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?"},"content":{"raw":"As we saw in Unit 4, Spanish has two verbs that translate to the English \"to be\":\u00a0ser\u00a0<\/em><\/span>and\u00a0estar.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>In this section, we'll look at one of the most common uses of\u00a0estar<\/em><\/span>: to describe conditions and emotions.\r\n\r\n\"aWhy are there two verbs? Romance languages (Spanish, Catalan, Gallego, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian) derive from Latin, and Latin had three main verbs that could function like \"to be\":\u00a0sed\u0113re<\/strong> \"to sit\", esse<\/strong> \"to be\", and st\u0101re<\/strong> \"to stand\" or \"to stay\". The first two, sed\u0113re<\/strong> and\u00a0esse<\/strong>, combined eventually into *essere<\/strong>, which came to mean\u00a0\"to be (permanently or essentially)\", in contrast to\u00a0st\u0101re<\/strong>, <\/strong>which meant\u00a0\"to be (temporarily or incidentally).\" Do you see where we're going here? *Essere<\/strong> = ser<\/span><\/em>;\u00a0st\u0101re <\/strong>= estar<\/span><\/em>.\r\n\r\nNote: although English has only one form of \"to be,\" we still get to join in the fun with words that take on qualities from their etymological roots. Esse<\/strong> gives us essence, essential, presence, and absence (among others), while\u00a0st\u0101re\u00a0<\/strong>gives us instance, instant, state, status, station, state, and substitute. See the pattern?\r\n\r\nSo does that help you understand the difference between ser <\/em><\/span> and\u00a0estar<\/em><\/span>?\r\n\r\nNo? OK, how about this: \"For how you feel\u00a0or where you are, always\u00a0use\u00a0the verb\u00a0estar<\/em>.\"\r\n
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OBJETIVOS<\/h3>\r\nAfter this section, you will be able to\u2026\r\n