Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.23 | Various uses of por

Episode Date: October 8, 2010

Over lessons 21-23 we’ve been looking at por and para. In lesson 23 it’s time to look at the various uses of por, including a number of situations when por doesn’t mean “for”. Please note that lesson 23 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 223 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 bienninos a coffee break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, in this lesson, we're continuing to look at Por and Para, these two words which both mean for and sometimes they mean other things too. We'll concentrate on Por in this lesson and think about the other translations of Por, not just for. I hope you find the lesson useful. Okay, Kara. In terms of Por, what do we have already?

We have Gratias Por. if we're going to say thank you for something like a present or we've got cambier for when we're going to change something in exchange for something else. Exactly. So our examples were first of all with we had something like gratis for el regalo. Grazieus for el regalo.

Okay, so thanks for the present. I'm exchanging my thanks for the present that you've given me. And when we were talking about exchanging things, then we had an example For example, Queres Cambiar your CD

for my book. Quares to my CD for your book.

Yeah, or something like that. I think it was the other way

around. Sorry. Not to worry. So that's exchanging things using

por. Today we're going to look at a number of other situations where

por is used. Some of these are in translations for for

and others are in phrases and other sort of set phrases where you would use por. Let's begin with one of those set phrases.

And that is something that we've come across already. Can you remember what manana means? It means morning or tomorrow. Exactly. It means morning. La manana is the morning. And manana is also tomorrow. Now, if we wanted to say tomorrow in the morning, we would say manana. Can you remember what the next bit is? For la manana?

Yeah. So, manana for la manana. So, por la manana means in the morning. For la manana. For la manana. How would you say, I go to the market in the morning?

Boy at the market for the manna. And then in the afternoon would be for la tarde. or of course early evening the whole thing about after lunch but before dinner for la tardi so in the afternoon I go to the

swimming pool for the tardy I'm a piscina piscina okay or pizina in Latin American Spanish so for the time go to the pistina for the time

I'm going to the pistina very well and any guesses as to what in the evening might be? For la noche? Por la noce. In the evening, I sleep. For la noche, duermo. Duermo, very well.

Tuermo, what kind of verb is that? It's a radical stem-changing verb. A radical changing verb, that's right, because the infinitive is... Dormir. Dormir. So the infinitive is Dormir, and the O of the infinitive becomes U-E in the conjugated parts, one, two, three, and six. Duermo, duermis, duermines, dormimus, duermin.

Okay, so that's for la manana, for la tarde, for la noche. So three examples of phrases where por has to be used. Now, another group of words or phrases which uses por is when you're sending something by a means of transport. Note that it's not when you're traveling by a means of transport because in that situation you would use N. So for example, we are going by car,

we're going by car, we're going in coach. However, if we are sending something by plane, by air, then you would say, for avion. Or a vion. Or por train. For train. So, for example, enviamos this card for avion.

Enviamos this card. So that's enviamos coming from the verb enviar, E-N-V-I-A-R. Enviar a carda. Enviamos this card for avion. But don't make the mistake of using por with a means of transport when it's you that's actually going. When you're sending something, it's fine to use por, but when you're actually traveling yourself, use N. Unless you're going by foot, in which case you say, A. P-a-Pie.

A-Pie. Boi-a-Pie. Okay, so that's our second group from today's lesson. Por train, for avion, por varko. Let's think of another way of sending things here, and that could be por correo. Correo. Correo is mail. Por correa.

So to send something by mail, enviar por correo. Enbiar por correo. And email. would be for Correo Electronico For Correo Electronico

Electronico For Correale Electronico Or indeed you may well hear For email But you could also send something

For fax For fax And indeed you can Ablar For telephone Ablar for telephone Yeah So we've got

For train, Por avion, Por Marco for train, for avion, for barco, and also for Correo, for Correale, for Correale Electronico, for email, for e-mail, for fax, for telephono. Okay, another situation would be when you're using the word por, when it means along or through, or throughout, or indeed around.

Do you remember when we asked, is there a bank, around here. How did we say that? There's a banko, exactly. There a bank, is there a bank around here? So, in that sense, when you're talking about location,

can mean around or, in some cases, for example, por la Calle, Camino, for the cajéé, I walk along the street. Por la Calle. For la Caille.

Okay. Por las montaias. For las montares. That's kind of through the mountains. Or we might say por las playas. For las plias. Along the beaches.

So, Caminamos for las plas during the vacations. We walked along the beaches during the holidays. For las plas. Or you can even go por an tunnel.

Por an tunnel. Por un tunnel So through or along a tunnel Okay So again more situations where you use Por and other situations linked to this location would be Por Acquis

Around here For Allie For Allie is over there You might say For all parts So everywhere, for partes. We quite often say that we're speaking to our students, for todas parts of the world.

For todas parts of the world. Yeah, for all parts of the world. Throughout the world or in all parts of the world. And in Diji can also say, por todo el mundo. For all the world. So throughout the world. world.

For all the world. For all the world. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. Now, if you'd like to get more out of your coffee break Spanish experience, then you can sign up for the full premium version of our course, and that includes video versions of our lessons, where you'll see the words and phrases on the screen of your device while you listen. There's also a set of lesson notes for every lesson with vocabulary and additional examples, and bonus audio. All of our premium courses are available at the Coffee Break Academy. That's at coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, let's get on with the lesson.

Let's just go through all of those location ones again. So we've got por la caille. Por la cae. Por el tunnel. Por el tunnel. For las montaillas. For las montaillas. For aque.

For a key. For a gie. For a yi For all Partes For all Partes For all

World Now the final situation that we're going to talk about today using Por is when

Por means On behalf of Okay So So Lo I go For T

Lo So I go For T So So I go It I do

For T on behalf of you So I'm I'm doing it on behalf of you. of you. Lo ago for you. Lo ago for you. A similar situation could be when you say something like,

Lo ago for amor. Lo ago for amor. Okay, so that's sort of on behalf of love, out of love. I'm doing it out of love. Lo do it out of love. Lo do for amor. Lo do for love. Okay, take something slightly different here. If I say, for example, canto I think about that carefully. I'm singing.

Or I sing, yeah, I sing or I'm singing. For my friend. Yeah, for my friend. Por means for, but in this case we're talking about por on behalf of. So I'm singing on behalf of my friend because my friend has got a sore throat. Canto por my amigo. Canto for my amigo.

So, I'm going to I can'tar a can't a can't an can't a can't for Antonio What does that mean?

I'm going to sing a song on behalf of Antonio Yeah, okay And notice the difference between that and I'm going to

can'tar a can't a can't for Antonio That would be I'm singing it for him Yeah,

not on behalf of him But the destination of the song is him Okay I'm going to sing a

a can't an can't an can't a can'ter an can't antonio okay so you get

the difference there between those two concepts okay let's compare it with regalos

uh go to buy a a gift for my father you're going

to buy a present on behalf of your father yeah because he can't

get out the house because he's too busy working or something like that I

to buy a gift for my father. However, if I say I'm going a

great a great it's for him at the destination time. Exactly. It's his

birthday. I'm going to buy a great a great for my real real

the he'll say thanks for the present. And I'm to buy a

great for my father for the morning. Okay, so

for the morning time for me padderi on behalf of but para in this situation because you're buying it for him okay I'm going to put this to the test now

I'm going to test your knowledge on por and para I'm going to give you some sentences in English and all I want you to do is tell me whether it is por or para okay in most cases they'll be translating four okay an easy one to start with number one thank you for the present

you would use poor Yeah, thank you for Thank you for The regalo Okay Number two Can you swap That watch for this one

You would use Port again Because you're exchanging something Very bien For me a coffee You would say Para me In cafe

And that would be Para because the destination Of the coffee is Yeah Exactly Number four I'm doing it for my brother because he is ill

You would use poor because you're doing it on behalf of him Okay Number five I'm sending this by email Por Correo Electronical Because you're sending it by email Yeah

Number six I'm going to Spain In order to study Spanish You would use para Because it's in order to do something Yeah and last one number eight I am going to sing a song

for Antonio Is it to Antonio? Yeah, it's to Antonio Okay, you would choose Tara? Okay, and would Antonio like you to sing a song for him or would he prefer you to sing a song on behalf of him? I think you'd prefer that it didn't sing at all So let's just go through what we've done today

We've had gratius por and cambia arbor when we're exchanging things already we then spoke about in the morning in the afternoon in the evening for la manana, for the tardy, for la noche. We then spoke about situations when we're sending something by mail, by train, by plane, by boat and so on. That's por train, for avion, por barco. And remember that when you're doing the travelling by train or boat or whatever, it's in train. Okay, en avion and so on. We then looked at situations when we're describing the location of something.

Por aci, por a di, for totales, and also other prepositions along the road through the tunnel, por la cajé, por el tunel. And finally, we looked at situations where por meant on behalf of. And specifically, we looked at the differences between, I'm going to buy a Regalo for my

Padre when you're buying it on behalf of your father and I'm

a a gift a for my father when you're buying it for your

father. Your father is the destination of the gift. And that's where we're

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