I agree ... I am agree
I know "I am agree" is grammatically incorrect.
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The question is: Do native speakers use that form though it is not right? (maybe in a particular area?)... In less than a week I heard "I am not agree" twice, in a movie and chatting with a native American... so I wonder now...
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Thanks in advance!!
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found it!!!! The movie is "The last kiss". I also found that part on YouTube... minute 1.03. This is what I hear:
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-What the f... were you thinking? did you just get bored?
-No, I'm just an idiot
-oh, on that much we're agreed
Am I wrong? Could you please, native speakers, tell me what he says?
You are exactly correct, Benz, that is what he says. I think it helps somewhat that he uses the tense that he does.
"We are agreed" doesn't seem as odd as "We are agree." But it still seems awkard if you ask me.
I can't say that I have ever heard anyone say that, but........
If you are talking about spoken English, I have heard people say something like
"Iamagree with you on that"; "Iamonna agree with you on that" or "I'magree with you on that"
...but what is occurring here is an elision or slurring together of words where the intended and correctly written sentence might be something like
I'm going to agree with you on that [elision of the g + incorporation of schwa]
I'm gonna agree with you on that [elision of gonn, leaving behind the unaccented "a" sound pronounced similar to the the "u" in the word "mud" (schwa)]
I'm a agree with you on that
I'magree with you on that
Phonetically, it might sound more like: Ím???gr?, Í?m'un??gr? or Ím??'?gr?
In this case the schwa sound that represents the word going to/gonna is sometimes run together with the schwa sound at the beginning of the word agree. Likely this is probably indistinguishable to you because you are not used to this type of speech pattern. (it is much the same with me in that before I realized that the "d" is often elided at the end of past participles, I had a lot of trouble figuring out what words people were saying when they would do this, but now that I am aware of this and know to expect it, I can often tell what word is being said now even with the elision occurring)
Let me just finish by saying that I am in no way advocating this type of speech (and definitely don't try to write this way), but I just wanted to point out that it is likely that what you are hearing is probably some type of elision somewhat along the lines of what I have described above.
I agree.
I am in agreement.
I do not agree.
I am not in agreement.
I disagree.
Occasionally "I do not disagree"
Can I say "They're agreed..."?
Apparently so. In all of these cases, "agreed" is used as an adjective, not a verb. So if you can say "we are agreed", you can also say "they are agreed." Reference 1Reference 2
'Are we agreed?' conveys the same meaning as 'Do we agree (with eachother)?' (as well as 'Are we in agreement (with eachother)?'
You can use these three ways for 'you', 'we' and 'they', but, as Ian says above, for some reason 'I am agreed' doesn't work!
This form of using 'agreed' has quite a strong business feel to it. You would find it most often in a business meeting or a courtroom where something is being discussed in order to reach (or conclude) an agreement. In this sense 'are we agreed?' replaces the question 'do we agree and can we finish the discussion?'
I agree with Izanoni1's response. I have heard 'I'ma' etc. However, it is usually in the context of African American dialogue in movies or in song lyrics.
For example, the remake of the movie Fame begins with a remake of the song by the same name. The lyrics start with I'ma, I'ma, I'ma live forever.
You are correct, Benz, that it is not proper English and people do say it. Personally, it is like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard.
I've never heard anyone say that. Maybe, and this would also sound odd to me, someone might say, "I'm not agreed." or "I'm agreed."
Maybe to wrap this up we need to look at "I am agreeable..........if"
In one sense it means "I will probably agree with you" or "I am about to agree with you"
In another sense it refers to "being agreeable" in the sense that "agreeable" here is something like "pleasant".
So "he is an agreeable person" means "he is a nice / pleasant person."
For some reason "We are agreed! is ok but "I am agreed" is not. No idea why. - ian-hill
Can I say "They're agreed..."? ![]()
I'm a agree with you on that
Sorry, I am curious about this sentence: what does it mean?
We just say I agree. Literally the Spanish phrase estar de acuerdo means to be in agreement.
I think "we're agreed" sounds okay because it sounds similar to "we've agreed". (We have agreed.) But if you say it without the contraction... "we are agreed.", it starts sounding less right. Usually one would say "Oh, on that much, we agree".
I found it!!!! The movie is "The last kiss". I also found that part on YouTube... minute 1.03. This is what I hear:
.
-What the f... were you thinking? did you just get bored?
-No, I'm just an idiot
-oh, on that much we're agreed
Am I wrong? Could you please, native speakers, tell me what he says? ![]()
I too have never heard that before. A person might say "I am in agreement" (I concur) or " I do not agree". Benz, you know I can't recite rules of grammar but I can tell you, "I am agree" doesn't even work it's way into the local color of any part of American English. ![]()
"I am agree" is most definitely not correct, where did you hear that?