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Regional grammatical variation

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Hello,

Sorry if there is already a post about this, but I couldn't figure out what keywords would return it...

Anyway, I was wondering. I know that there are some major grammatical variations based on geography, such as vosotros. I was wondering, however, how extensive grammatical variations between Spanish speaking countries. For example, can the use of por or para change depending on your location, or the use of the imperfect and the preterit tenses? Obviously, those are not the only things that could change, but they're some examples of what I mean.

Thank you all, Maxwell

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updated Aug 13, 2012
posted by Maxwell_R

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One example similar to the "vosotros" thing is in some countries, notably Argentina, they use a different pronoun for the second-person singular familiar (tú), this pronoun being "vos". Vos has conjugations similar to "vosotros." Here are some link explaining more in-depth this phenomenon, called formally "el Voseo".

Wikipedia: "El Voseo"

Vos Conjugation

updated Aug 13, 2012
posted by PumpkinCalabaza
No somos los unicos, Uruguay tambien vosea - silvia61, Aug 13, 2012