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15 Jul 2017
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A lady I work with was quizzing me on my Spanish and she asked what "síjele" meant. I think what she had in mind was some verb command like "ándele" for example, but I had no idea what it meant. Something like "síjele" - ring any bells at all?
A lady I work with was quizzing me on my Spanish and she asked what "síjele" meant. I think what she had in mind was some verb command like "ándele" for example, but I had no idea what it meant. Something like "síjele" - ring any bells at all?
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- Spanish (Mexico)
it is "síguele", the verb "seguir". It's badly written. Is a Mexican vulgarism
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"Suíguele" for example, a son is behaving badly and the mom said "suiguele" as warning...
Someone is seaking Spanish for first time and is embarrassed so the others cheer him up; "tú síguele" :)
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@cristopherlizamev, you don't say! Thank you- what does it mean vaguely?
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@LauraDiana, gracias! But what does it mean in those examples?
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In Spain it just has one meaning (follow him)
More examples:
Sigue a tu hermana
- Follow your sister
Sígueme, es por aquí
- Follow me, it's over here
Seguidme en Twitter
- Follow me on Twitter
(In that last sentence in L.A it would be "Síganme" instead, as they don't use "vosotros/as")
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@-Alexia-, gracias por los ejemplos! It took me a good 10 seconds to figure out what you meant by L.A. by the way -any American would interpret that as Los Angeles (I just thought that was interesting -thank you!)
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In Latin America you really say "síguele" to say "keep going"? That in Spain doesn't make any sense, we just say "sigue" to mean that.
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@-Alexia- en México si utilizamos "síguele" como advertencia cuando alguien está molestando y también para dar ánimo, no sé en los otros países
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@-Alexia-, no worries -now I know something I didn't before :)
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@LauraDiana Ya veo, aquí también se utiliza así, pero solo decimos "sigue" xd
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