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What is the difference between "estoy" and "soy?"
What is the difference between "estoy" and "soy?"
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- Spanish (Mexico)
I am Clara - yo soy Clara (name, professions, nationality, religion, etc)
I am in the bank - Yo estoy en el banco (places, health, etc)
But you can use estoy and soy for emotions
I am happy - yo soy/estoy feliz
- Spanish (Mexico)
*estar* se usa para hablar de: estados temporales (situaciones que ocurren y pueden cambiar con el tiempo), actividades en presente (gerundio) y ubicaciones (lugares geográficos, dónde están las partes del cuerpo, etc).
*ser* se utiliza para describir características (el perro es bonito, Juan es delgado), para hablar sobre propiedad (el texto es mío) y para hablar de la fecha, la hora o el valor de algo (hoy es lunes, son las 11:11, son 100 pesos por todo). Sin embargo, varios adjetivos funcionan tanto con ser como con estar y su función dependerá de su contexto. Esta es una regla de las más complicadas en el español. Mucha suerte!
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Spanish (Colombia)
Yeah, but "Yo soy feliz" is referring to a permanent condition that is not going to change in the foreseeable future. On the other hand, "estoy feliz" refers to a temporary condition that could change any moment: "Yo estoy feliz ahora" but maybe tomorrow I'm not going to be happy anymore.
There are also some adjectives that express permanent conditions but use "estar" and not "ser", for example: "estar muerto"(You can't say "ser muerto") This is because they express the result of a change, the inherent change of dying.
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- English (US)
soy is permanent. for example soy de méxico or soy de los estados unidos(saying where you’re from basically). and estoy is emotion. for example, estoy enojada (im mad) estoy triste (im sad) and that’s temporary feelings.
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