ser and estar help me

Question

okie i tried learning Ser and Estar but wen i looked up some sentences i got confused like wen i did he is a boring person it came up as ''que está tratando.'' but this is ser form shouldn't it contain es in it than i did he is tired que está cansado. this has esta in it too .

am confused

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Answer 1

Él está aburrido. (He is feeling bored (situation or condition uses Estar)

Él es aburrido. (He is a boring person. Quality or characteristic uses Ser)

Él está cansado. (He is feeling tired (situation or condition uses Estar)

Él es cansado. (He has a tiring [could be boring, annoying, listless, lazy] personality uses Ser).

Answer 2

Welcome to the forum!

Alvina, there are probably more threads on the forum about the use of ser and estar than any other subject. If you'll do a search, you'll see the subject has been discussed extensively.

Also, there is a good video lesson on this site that helped me.

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