Learn how to ask "When?"
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| Hola a todos! Soy Lucia. Hi everybody! I’m Lucia. |
| Welcome to SpanishPod101.com’s Español en tres minutos. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Spanish. |
| In the last lesson, we learned how to ask "Where" questions in Spanish. |
| This time, we are going to ask "When" questions. |
| Let’s go! Vamos! |
| Imagine you want to ask when your roommate is coming back home. You will ask him ¿Cuándo vuelves a casa? |
| [slowly] ¿Cuándo vuelves a casa? |
| So let’s break down this question. |
| First we had- |
| Cuándo, which is the basic translation of "When" in Spanish. |
| vuelves is the verb "to come back", volver in the 2nd person present indicative form. |
| The subject in this sentence is Tu, which is "you", but it is omitted from the sentence. |
| And finally a casa which is "to home." |
| So, all together it is ¿Cuándo vuelves a casa? |
| "When will you come back home?" |
| So in Spanish, "When" is translated with the word Cuándo. Here's another example: if you want to ask "When were you born?" you would say ¿Cuándo naciste? |
| Like in English, the question word is placed in the 1st position and then the verb. It’s exactly the same structure as Qué and Dónde. |
| So let’s take a look at another example- |
| How can you say "When did you arrive?" |
| It’s really simple since it is exactly the same pattern- ¿Cuándo llegaste? |
| First we have Cuándo, which is "When" |
| The second word is llegas which is the verb llegar or ”to arrive” in 2nd person past tense. |
| [slowly] ¿Cuándo llegaste? |
| Let’s see how to ask "Until when?" in Spanish. It is very easy because you can translate it directly. It becomes ¿Hasta cuándo? |
| So for example, if you want to ask a friend "Until when are you going to stay here?" it would be, ¿Hasta cuándo te quedas aquí? |
| Just add Hasta “Until” before cuándo. |
| Simple, isn’t it? |
| Now it’s time for Lucia’s Insights. |
| To ask how long an action has been taking place in Spanish, we could say ¿Desde cuándo? It’s the same structure that we used in Hasta cuándo? |
| ¿Desde cuándo estás esperando? That is "How long have you been waiting?" |
| Literally, it would be “from when...”. |
| In this lesson, we learned how to ask "When" questions and also some variations. |
| Next lesson we’ll learn about asking "Who" questions in Spanish. |
| I’ll be waiting for you in the next Español en 3 minutos lesson. |
| Hasta la próxima! |
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