"Que tierno sos!"

Question

What does that mean? "What a baby you are?" I have no clue :S Because "tierno" means baby, or tender...?

¡Que tierno sos, che! jeje te faltó el "che". :) - nelson_rafael, Sep 11, 2011

jajaja es verdad jajaja ;) - dondestascorazon, Sep 11, 2011

Answer 1

man: Oh honey, I live for your smile and I die for your kiss.

woman: (Your words are a reflection of your feelings)... You are so cute / tender / lovely!

I'm gonna have to remember this one :) - TheSilentHero, Sep 11, 2011

Answer 2

Sos, not sois? Is that voseo Spanish? Vos sos un bebé. I wish that more people would use voseo so that I could become more familiar with the verbs.

We would have to have more context of the conversation. He could have been calling you anything from mimada to effeminate. Let's hope that he was trying to say that you are a Babe!

yes, it is voseo, like from argentina :) haha thanks! - dondestascorazon, Sep 11, 2011

You're a Babe, qfreed. He just called her nice, however, in any context that I can think of. - Vikingo, Sep 11, 2011

oh, and no one said this to me haha i've just seen this phrase around facebook, and wondered what it meant! it's one of those u see everywhere and finally get around to asking about :P - dondestascorazon, Sep 11, 2011

You can ask here, but be careful not to step into dogpoop lying around. By the way, didn't he say "qué tiernA sos"?, since you're female? - Vikingo, Sep 11, 2011

no, multiple people i've seen say this..i've seen tierno and tierna! - dondestascorazon, Sep 12, 2011

Answer 3

You're so nice/affectionate!

"Sos" is the so-called voseo, spaniards would say "eres", it's used particularly in the southern parts of south America - Argentina, Uruguay, parts of Bolivia, etc.

In East Bolivia you'll hear soj, with J instead of S. People from there change it. Ejpero que lo entendáj. : ) - nelson_rafael, Sep 11, 2011

Cool, I didn't know that :) And that's an English-y sound of the J, not just the somewhat whistling sound that you can hear a lot of places? (I need to get that IPA alphabet down, now!) - Vikingo, Sep 11, 2011