La gente esta muy loca
Does "la gente esta muy loca" mean:
"the people are very crazy"?
At school, one of my friends says that his Columbian friend says it means:
"the people have gone very crazy"
but when I looked online it said "are very crazy" and one of my Spanish friends says it means "are very crazy" as well...
Which one is it? (or both)
¡Gracias!
2 Answers
La gente està muy loca. The people are very crazy. (at the moment)
La gente se volvío muy loca. The people went very crazy. (they became crazy)
La gente se ha vuelto muy loca. The people have gone very crazy.
Realize that I am an unreliable source, just a student--not a native speaker!
La gente está muy loca. ---The people are very crazy.
The verb form estar basically means "to be".
So the word está in a sentence means that whatever action being described is current or is happening right now.
Other examples are:
El gato está comiendo. ----The cat IS eating.
El hombre está en su casa. ---The man IS in his house.
El niño está mirando el televisor--- The boy IS watching television.
