Yo soy de donde tú estés

Question

A Rosa, Yo soy de donde tú estés. I am from where you are now. ? Gracias.

Answer 1

This is poetic language, it's not weird at all. It's about "matters of the heart", so Rosa, wherever you are (whatever country you are in), that country is my homeland.

For example, if you (Rosa) are in Spain, I am a Spaniard. If you (Rosa) are in Colombia, I am a Colombian. That is why Ser is used to describe who I am and Estar is used for wherever you (Rosa) will be (subjunctive of course). We're talking about a homeland here, in this context, Spain, but as mentioned above, it doesn't matter, whatever your homeland is, that's who I am.

I hope this made sense.

Answer 2

I am from wherever you are from

then why estés and not eres? - jeezzle, Feb 7, 2011

Why, indeed? - samdie, Feb 7, 2011

Yes I think that can be true - FELIZ77, Feb 7, 2011

Subjunctive can add an "-ever" sense to adverbs, E.g. "Cuando quieras, whenever you want" - TheSilentHero, Feb 7, 2011

This is not correct. - Gekkosan, Feb 7, 2011

How? - TheSilentHero, Feb 8, 2011

Answer 3

Jack has the closest answer by far, and a great explanation. So, in short:" I am from wherever you are" (now, or at any given time).

Or "Wherever you are, that's where I'm from."

Answer 4

Yo soy de donde tú estés.

Weird. If it were indicative, I would take it to mean "I am from the place where you are now." Obviously, if it were "eres" , it would come down to "We are from the same place.."

That's what I'm thinking but it is weird. - jeezzle, Feb 7, 2011

Samdie, that is exactly what I thought. ! I know theer are two subjects: yo y tu but there is no relative pronoun que separating them and it is simply stating a fact (indicative) with no anticipated event or hypothetical aspect - FELIZ77, Feb 7, 2011