Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.22 | Expressing purpose using para

Episode Date: October 4, 2010

In lesson 22 we’re continuing to discuss por and para: this time we’re focusing on the use of para when expressing purpose, e.g. "this gift is for you” – este regalo es para ti. We’ll also learn the verb regalar, and talk briefly about the personal a. Please note that lesson 22 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 222 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and bienninoes at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, in this lesson, we're continuing to look at Port and Para, in particular, concentrating on para this time. We'll also take a look at the personal A, another peculiarity of the Spanish language. I hope you enjoy the lesson. In last week's lesson, we learned about the use of para for destinations.

So this regalo is para ti. And another use of para is purpose. So I said earlier, I'm here, I'm here in order to help you. Para aidarte. So that's the T, going on the end of the infinitive. Audar to help. Te going on the end.

I'm here to help. I'm here to help. Aude'Aude. Ayudarte. Ayudarte. Okay. And then you said, I'm here or I'm

Lista for Apreendar Spanish. I'm here to learn Spanish. Which you've maybe

said once or twice in fact maybe 62 times Yeah. I'm here. The purpose of you being here is in order

to learn Spanish. I'm here to learn Spanish. I'm here to learn Spanish. So I am here to help you.

I'm here to help and I'm here to learn Spanish. Perfect. Okay, let's get back

to the topic of the fiesta. Why might you go to a party? Well, let's think of the purpose of going to a party. The purpose

of going to a party maybe to be to be to see your friends. Yeah. To see your friends? Yeah.

Now, Para ver in order to see bear the infinitive to see A tus amigos There's an a in there and it's quite difficult to understand why it's there because tus amigos is obviously your friends This a tusamigos is called the personal

A and we're going to come back to it in a later lesson For the time being If you're doing something in order to see Your friends for example Then you just need to include include this a para ver to

those amigos To be to be your friends Okay basically

it's because the object of the sentence is a person and you need to put the person

line in but don't worry about that just now we'll come back to it

later later so you might go to party go to a fiesta

to see a car can you say that I'm a party

very very what other reasons might you go to a

party for to eat and drink Okay, well, you can say that. Para Comer and para beaver? Para comer and beaver or

para comer and per verver. So para plus an infinitive in each time. In order to eat, in order to drink. What about in order to dance? Para bailer. Para bailar.

Okay. Last time we had to celebrate. to celebrate. Yeah, or indeed celebrate in Latin America. There's another word that we used way back in lesson 10 to celebrate.

Kara, can you remember what that word was? Para festijar? Very well. Para festejar. That was back in our little Christmas song but Navidat,

Navidad, hay to festeer or something like that. Festihar to celebrate or celebrate. Okay, so para plus an infinitive in each of these cases. What about to give a present to my friend?

To give a present to my friend. Very well. To give a regal to my friend. To give a regal to my friend. Perfect. Okay. Let's think of something else to get to know new friends, to meet.

new people to meet new friends. Now, to get to know or to know, there are two words in Spanish for to know. Can you remember what they are? Saber and connofer? Yeah, saver and conofer. All the infinitives always are stressed

on that last syllable. So, saver, conofer. Saver, conofer. Yeah, these are two words meaning to know. Saver is used when you know something, you know a fact. Okay. And that conofer is used to know a person.

So in this case we're going to be using conocer and it can also mean to get to know. So you can say, para conocer a newos amigos. Yeah, and there's that funny a in there again. Para Connoisse a Nuevos amigos because the object is a person

in this case, Nuevos Amigos. Again, we'll come back to that. Don't worry. It's the same as to be a mis amis amigos. So I'm going to the fiesta, I'm going to the fiesta, I'm going to the party to know a new

friends. I'm going to the Fiesta for Connoce a new friends. Okay. I'm going to

ask you now why are you going to the party? Porque a fiesta. So, Kat,

can you just repeat that question? Forke you vas to the Fiesta? So what does why do

why? Yeah, and it's two separate words. for que Okay, so por literally means for and ke

What? So for what are you going to the party? Why are you going to the party? Now this is where it gets a little complicated because an answer to that could be for example I'm going to la fiesta because I want to be a my amigo okay so think carefully about that and we're going to translate it literally

I'm going to the party Because I want to see my friend What is because? What is because What is because mean? It means because So why means Why?

Because So because So because when it's two words means why And because when it's one word Means because That's okay, yeah, it makes sense? Okay. Now listen carefully to this question.

Para que you're going to the fiesta. Para que you pass to the fiesta. Yeah. Ciras para. It means why, but in a slightly different sense. It means for what reason? Okay. Why are you going to the party? What is the reason that you're

going to the party for? You're going to the party in order to do what. Okay. So the only way to answer it would be, I'm going to la fiesta for, plus an infinitive, so I'm going to the fiesta to come, para ballar,

para celebrate, and so on. So, because needs a reason, and para que is simply asking what the purpose of your going to the party

is. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Gopher Brick Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with their regular

posts on social media. Find us on Facebook, just search for coffee break Spanish. We're Learn Spanish on Twitter and you can keep up with the team through our regular posts on Instagram. Follow coffee break languages. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. I don't want to complicate things by dwelling on this, so we'll leave it there, but just remember that para is used for purpose. Okay, so what is the purpose? And to translate para as in order to will help you remember that purpose use of para.

Okay? Okay. Okay. Is it? Entenido? Si. Yeah, we're going to move on and talk about a particular verb that's used in connection with parties and gifts and so on.

I said last week that we could say, dar a regalo a alien, so to give a present to someone, but there is another verb that's very, very common in Spanish and that is regalar. Regalar. And that's quite an efficient word

because regalar means to give a gift or to give a present. Okay. So, regalar is conjugated like any other ER verb. It's a regular ER verb. So it's regalo, regalas, regala.

regalamos, regalais, regal. Regal, regalas. Regalas. Very well. Okay. So, in this sense,

if I said, Ke me regalas, I would be saying, what are you giving me as a gift? What are you giving me as a gift? Nothing? Thank you.

Thanks very much for nothing. Thanks very much for nothing. Okay, so, what are you getting me for my birthday or what me regalas for my birthday or whatever? Now, let's turn this around and talk about the past, okay? If you want to say, I got something for my birthday, then you would say, me regalaron, in the preterate, me regalaron. Okay, so literally, that means they gave to me regalaron.

Okay, so literally, that means they gave to me. me and when you're using this they in Spanish it's quite often used in the sense that you're not specifying who you're talking about so me regalaron a book so i got a book literally they gave to me a book but you're not being specific as to who the they is if that makes sense if you were to be specific then you could say something like my mother me regal oh my mother me regalow so my mother me a book.

My mother me gave a book. And, for

example, what did your father? My father me

gave a CD. Perfect. My father me gave

a CD, my mother me gave a book,

my friends me regal on Yes, my my friends

me regal a polcera My my made a

polcerer Yeah because you you gave a your

a friend a a right Yes So In

the preter I I gave gave you gave

we we we gave us regal we gave

you gave gave gave gave gave gave gave

gave Oh, regalamos, regalastys, regaleron. Very good. Regalaron. Regalaron. Very well. Okay, if you were giving a present to someone

and you wanted to say happy birthday, then in Spanish, you say it exactly the same way. You see happy, which in this case is, Feliz. Feliz. Or in Latin America, Feliz. Feliz.

And the word for birthday, which we learned last week, was Cumbllianios. Cumblaeos Cumblyneos Felid Cumpleaños or Felice Cumplianios

Now if you were singing Happy Birthday Yes, you know what's coming If you were singing Happy birthday Then you change it round And you say Cumblias

Felios Felis And you see that twice Cumbiaos Feliz Compli Annios Felis Felis Cumblii Annios Felis Fili Fis

Fili Fis And then T Dese To be we wish As te deseamos Desire means to wish So to you we wish And we all wish

Te deseamos Toesios Félis So to sing the song You would sing Compleanios Felid Comeleanios Felis Te dese

us todos Complie annios Felis I don't think we'll pain you with any more singing. Now, when talking about birthdays, you can also add in, que complas much more. Yeah. Now, there's quite a tricky construction grammatically, because it's actually using the subjunctive, but we'll not go there just now,

but it means may you reach many more. May you have many more. Okay, so may you have many more birthdays. Like many happy returns? Yeah, exactly. So, Ke complas much more. Okay. Now, I really think it would only be right

if we sang happy birthday one more time before we finish this particular program. And hopefully if it's your birthday today out there and our listeners, then this will be especially for you. Okay? So here goes, you're going to sing nice and loudly car, aren't you?

No. Okay. And that's Fériig Féliéliéliéi And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break Spanish

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