"llevaste/llevar las llaves"

Question

How would you understand these two questions?:

1) ¿Llevaste las llaves? 2)¿Te llevaste las llaves?

Answer 1

They could have a slight different meaning depending of the context but it is a minimal difference.

1) ¿Llevaste las llaves? - Did you carry the keys

2)¿Te llevaste las llaves?/¿Llevaste las llaves? - Did you take the keys

Si?

Answer 2

Llevar is to take and using a personal pronoun dosen´t change the meaning of the verb.To indicate to bring, we use traer.

¿Te llevaste las llaves?

Did you take the keys with you? (a more personal nuance)

¿ Llevaste las llaves?

Did you take the keys?

Answer 3

Here's what I was thinking the difference might be:

1) ¿Te llevaste las llaves? Implies that the speaker and the person to whom the question is being asked are together in the same place, and the question is "Did you bring the keys with you?"

2)¿ Llevaste las llaves? Did you take the keys (to where you were going). But if the situation were that the two people are standing at the door needing to get into the home, and one is asking the other if he brought the keys with him, only "te llevaste" works, not "llevaste."

I should have included my thought process with my original question.

Apparently my answer did not help you? - chileno, Jun 28, 2014

Answer 4

A mi parecer es lo mismo.

Es como decirlo de una forma más formal:

¿Usted se llevó las llaves?

¿Se llevó usted las llaves?

Es solo un ejemplo, así como estas dos frases significan lo mismo te encontraras muchas similares, es solo entender como y cuando están compuestas así.

Suerte.