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3-Minute Mexican Spanish S1

#12
What are you doing?

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Mexican Spanish
English
Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Grammar
Cultural Insight

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MEXICAN SPANISH
1.

Qu haces?

2.

Qu est usted haciendo?

3.

Estoy estudiando.

4.

Nada en especial.

ENGLISH
1.

What are you doing? (informal)

2.

What are you doing? (formal)

3.

I am studying.

4.

I'm doing nothing special.

VOCABULARY
S panish

English

no es asunto tuyo (Mexican)

your business
expression

C lass
It is none of

haces (Iberian)

you do

verb

usted (Mexican)

you *formal

pronoun

est (Mexican)

are

verb

estoy (Iberian)

I am

verb

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que (Mexican)

demonstrative,

that

conjunction,interrogative
adverb

estudiando (Iberian)

studying

verb

nada (Mexican)

nothing

pronoun, adjective

en (Mexican)

in

preposition

especial (Costa Rican)

special

adverb

SAMPLE SENTENCES
Qu haces?

Estoy cansado.

"What do you do?"

"I'm tired."

Dicen que l que persevera

Claro que traigo el pan

alcanza.

"Of course I brought the bread."

"They say he who perseveres

succeeds."
Cunto tiempo has estado
estudiando espaol?

No he comido nada.
"I've had nothing to eat."

"How long have you been study

ing
Spanish?"
Est en la oficina.
No hay nada ah.
"There is nothing there."

"He is in the office."

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Tiene usted algn descuento Le dar un descuento especial.

especial hoy?

"I'll give you a special discount."

"Do you have any special discounts

today?"

GRAMMAR
In this lesson you will learn how to ask what someone is doing.
What
Mexican Spanish

English

Phrase 1

Qu haces?

doing?are you

Word 1

qu

what

Important

Notes

Verb "hacer" to do,

conjugated in
the
Word 2

Qu est
haces

you do

2nd person
singular (you) in th
e
informal register.

What are you

Phrase 2

haciendo? usted doing?

Word 1

qu

what

Word 2

est

are

2nd person
Verb "estar" - to be,

singular (you) in th

conjugated in the

e
formal register.

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Word 3

usted

you *formal
Verb "hacer" - to do,
in gerund form.

Word 4

haciendo

doing

Phrase 3

Estoy estudiando. I am studying.

Verb "estar" - to be,
conjugated in the

Word 1

Estoy

I'm doing
I am

1st person singular

(I).
Verb "estudiar" - to
study, in gerund

Word 2

estudiando

studying

Phrase 4

Nada en especial. special.

Word 1

nada

nothing

Word 2

en

in

Word 3

especial

special

form.

nothing

*All verbs are conjugated in the Present Tense, unless it is indicated in the Im
portant Notes
Column.

CULTURAL INSIGHT
If you don't feel like giving explanations about what you are doing, you can ju
st say: no es
asunto tuyo. - "It is none of your business". But just between friends!

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