With aparcado which verb do we use estar or ser
When we say "El coche ......... aparcado en la calle Mayor." which verb do we use ser or estar?
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"Ser" is used to classify, identify or define. Unless you want to classify that car as a parked type of car, you better use "estar", which is used for circumstances.
igual que el niño crece
Either you don't read what you write or you don't understand what you have written. By this latest argument, you would prefer "estaba un niño" (because he grew up) and "Soy joven." would be incorrect because I will grow older (youth is not permanent). Perhaps, you do, indeed, say "Estoy joven." but, if you do, you mark yourself permanently as a non-speaker of Spanish.
P.S. In Spanish, one says "Son las tres." because it's permanently 3:00 in Spanish speaking countries? And, if so, how can they also say "Son las cuatro."?
P.P.S. if Catholicism were relevant (which it isn't) and your appeal is to the notion of "life everlasting", then they should, by the same reasoning, say "Es vivo." instead of "Está vivo." (though, in fact, Spanish speakers say the latter).
Welcome to the Forum Gun, in this case you could think 'is the car there permanently?' obviously not so like z said = use estar.
estar
It depends:
El auto es aparcado cada mañana frente a mi casa por la vecina.
El auto está aparcado cada mañana frente a mi casa.
under estar, rule 2:
- Location The location of someone or something describes where it is permanently, temporarily, actually, or conceptually.
