¿Como se dice "ustedes" en ingles?
¿Como se dice "ustedes" en ingles?
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In English tú, vosotros, usted and ustedes are all pronounced you. Meaning is taken from context or from noting the number of other parts of speech in the sentence.
Take off your hat. (tú or usted)
Take off your hats (vosotros or ustedes).
Ustedes is the plural, formal way of saying "you." (You as in a group of people.)
In Brooklyn, they say "Yous." It's not correct, but very much a part of New York.
Sometimes we say "you guys" to make it clear that we are addressing more than one "you". And in the South of the United States you will hear "you all" to express the plural you. You will even hear it abreviated to "y'all".
But with regard to your question - "ustedes", I think that "you guys" might not be a correct translation. "You guys, you gals, or you guys and gals" would more likely be the translation for the peninsular Spanish "vosotros" when the translation must express some sort of colloquial connotation - you, my buddies, for example.
If "ustedes" is the formal form for you, I don't think people speaking a more formal English would address a group of people who would be "ustedes" in peninsular Spanish as "you guys" :--)
But I don't know if "ustedes" is the formal form for the plural you everywhere Spanish is spoken. Is it in Latin America?, where I have read that "vosostros" is not even used?
You.
