Tu necesitas llevar los cinco sillas. ??

Question

I quit teaching Spanish over 6 years ago to raise my family. Now I'm back in the workforce teaching online. I say teaching because I have my certification, but the students actually learn from an interactive computer program - I'm more of a guide on the side than a sage on the stage. My Spanish is rusty, and I've been grading finals for 2 days so I'm tired and can't think straight.

A question on a test tells the student to tell the janitor to remove things or leave things in the classroom. The student put this line as an answer:

Tú necesitas llevar los cinco sillas.

Llevar bascially means "to wear" or "to carry", if I remember my first year Spanish correctly. I don't think she is using llevar correctly, but I need some additional brain matter to help me out please.

Thanks!

Answer 1

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Also, tú shouldn't be used here.

Sorry, I copied and pasted her answer, rather than the corrections. Thank you for the correction. I'm more concerned about the use of llevar - is it correct? - SiempreAprendo, Jan 13, 2011

I would have used another verb, but llevar can mean to take to another location. - lorenzo9, Jan 13, 2011

Lorenzo9, would you mind telling me which verb you would have used please? :) - SiempreAprendo, Jan 13, 2011

quitar - lorenzo9, Jan 13, 2011

Gracias - SiempreAprendo, Jan 14, 2011

Answer 2

If I were asking someone to take something out of a room, I would use quitar, but I wouldn't say llevar is wrong. If you're asking/telling someone to take these chairs to room 101 then llevar would work fine, but if you ask/tell someone to remove/take these chairs out of this room without regard to where the chairs finally end up, then I think quitar works better.

I agree with you, Jack-OBrien. Thanks! - SiempreAprendo, Jan 14, 2011

Answer 3

Well, what about it? Does it work since "llevarSElos" would indicate that the chairs should be taken, and not need the noun since the destination should not be needed since you use SE? LLévate las cinco sillas.

jeezzle, I wish I could answer your question, quite frankly. Sorry I can't and that no one else did. - SiempreAprendo, Jan 14, 2011

Oops, forgot to add, thanks for responding. :) - SiempreAprendo, Jan 14, 2011

Answer 4

What about "necesitas llevarte las cinco sillas."??

Answer 5

Is there a typo in your example sentence? An extra space?

Tú necesitas llevar los cinco sillas.

or

Tú necesitas llevarlos [les] cinco sillas.

If not, you seem to have a gender error. (las sillas is feminine).

You are absolutely right. Sorry, I copied and pasted her answer, rather than the corrections. Thank you for the correction. I'm more concerned about the use of llevar - is it correct? - SiempreAprendo, Jan 13, 2011