Cómo se usa la palabra "pues"?

Question

Pueden explicarme cómo se usan esta palabra? Por favor, me dice cómo entiende, porque nadie (que conozco) pueden explicarme cómo usarla, pero todos la usan!

Answer 1

Pues...., bueno..., vale... etc. son tipos de palabras que se pueden repitir en la conversación, por costumbre o como apoyo al hablar.

The English equivalent is "well....., um..., er....etc ." . It's a filler word, it fills the gap between utterances.

Answer 2

I have to answer this question in English I´m afraid.

Here in Spain the word "pues" seems to be used as a "linking word" in a conversation. As in" well then," or just "well", or as a "stalling word" while the speaker is thinking.

I think you have to take it in context with rest of the sentance

• "...rest of the sentEnce." - Martyn Oct 6, 2009
• Thanks - caza Oct 6, 2009
• This is what I have been told the word means, too - Izanoni1 Oct 6, 2009

Answer 3

Hold on. "pues" is more than a filler word -- whatever that is.

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"Tengo sueño. Pues vete a la cama." (I'm sleepy. Then go to bed.) Pues = then.

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"¿No vas con ella, pues? (Aren't you going with her after all?) pues = after all.

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"Cómpralo, pues lo necesitas." (Buy it, since you need it.) pues = since

Answer 4

The dictionary is a useful satrting point.

• Starting point - I can't edit anymore today!!!!!! - ian-hill Oct 6, 2009
• :o) I wouldn't ask if the dictionary had answered sufficiently. - zaya Oct 6, 2009

Answer 5

Is "vaya" used as a linking word?

• "vaya" is a conjugation of "ir"...? - zaya Oct 6, 2009
• Yes, but I see it all the time in places where that makes no sense. Sometimes I just see a character in a comic say, "Vaya, vaya," before starting a real sentence. - Jason_Bryant Oct 6, 2009

Answer 6

Pues como te explico? Orale pues ya me voy.

Answer 7

Vaya is a subjunctive for the verb IR and is used when there is doubt that you or someone will go.

• The questions was whether or not it is used, without (or without much) meaning as a linking, or pause, word... and it is... - zaya Oct 15, 2009
• ... and it is... usually as a pensative response to a received explanation of something deserving more thought, extraoridinary, rare/unusual... - zaya Oct 15, 2009