Using "estar por"
Does "estar por" mean, "to be in the mood"?
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I've herd heard estar por in expressions like:
¿Por dónde estás?
Estoy por la Avenida Roemo. Estoy por llegar.
Estoy por romper en llanto.
Estoy por irme a trabajar.
In my opinion estoy por is similiar to a punto de...
I am about to go to work, I'll call you later.
Estoy a punto de irme a trabajar, te llamo luego.
Estoy por irme a trabajar, te llamo luego.
In this moment, I am ready for go out!, En este momento estoy por salir o estoy listo para salir. I can't stop.>I am hard up! Other: somebody don't are in his, her work becouse she, he is sick... then you are working in his or her desk... you are his , her replacement. "You are by him, her".Tu colega no viene a trabajar hoy porque está enfermo, por lo tanto, Tu estás por él, ella, o sea que, tu lo estás reemplazando.
Were one to posit a Latin analogue for "estar por" it would be stare per, which is found. So this expression may have had a much longer life than is presently and generally posited. Moreover, the estar aspect, which means in origin, "stand", also has some curious echos in some of the uses of "stand" in English as well--as in, for example, "it stands to rain". or "he stands to lose a lot if that happens", and so forth. That is about as far as one can go at the moment, but it stands to reason it is worth some deeper investigation. With an expression like "estar por" a grammatical understanding of the actual temporal and spatial sense may be more penetrating than a long list of different uses and their translations.
To be about
L: Think it stands to rain soon, Ollie?
H: Could be, Stan--what do you think, one leg or two?
