"lista" and "listo"

Question

I confused by these words. Lista is a 'list of phrases' and 'a clever girl'. Listo is "ready" and a 'clever fellow'. Is this true? How can I tell what is meant.

Answer 1

Ser listo ( masculine ) lista ( feminine ) = be clever / smart.

Estar listo / lista = be ready.

Thank you je_suis_ice, that made it simple. Muchísimas gracias! - maxdetail, Mar 19, 2012

Answer 2

So if I was talking to a girl would it be "¿Lista, chica?"?

I left out the "are you" (estás) because it is frequently omitted in English

You´re on the right track more or less.

Well, they leave off the pronouns (you, in this case) much more than we do even, but, I think in general, are less likely to leave off the verb (estás). But I´m sure if you´re talking to someone directly and said "¿Lista, chica?", it would work fine.

What I hear the most hear, is a slight shortinging: ´stas lista? with the leading ´e´ being partially, or wholly swallowed.

hth roger

"What I hear the most hear, is a slight shortinging: ´stas lista? with the leading ´e´ being partially, or wholly swallowed." That is because they speak it quickly, the primary E is pronounced, its just barely audible - hemloccoctail, Mar 2, 2017

Answer 3

So if I was talking to a girl would it be "¿Lista, chica?"?

I left out the "are you" (estás) because it is frequently omitted in English, I assume it's the same in Spanish because we both follow some of the same common speech deletion rules due to the fact that we share a border with a Spanish-speaking country. Can anyone answer the above question?

Answer 4

So what would be the difference between "he is handsome" and "he is ready"?

He's handsome = Él es guapo. He is ready = Él está listo (Handsome = guapo, good looking man). - -cae-, Mar 19, 2012

Of course. I told you I was confused. Yo estaba confundido. Gracias. - maxdetail, Mar 20, 2012

Answer 5

It is true that there are words which can be confused, but it is easy to difernciarlas, because in this case this word always stained to go with another word, that is to say that it must be a phrase of two words, for example a note said list of supermarket; already you're going to know which is the list of things to go to the supermarket, and another note says, this guy is very intelligent or also you could put these list to go on a trip " this word has several meanings.

"always stained" ?? do you mean, "is always paired with another" ? - Lector_Constante, Mar 19, 2012

Answer 6

Is it the difference between estar and ser?