I'm Writing a Letter in Spanish

Question

When writing a letter, you write: Dear Person, In Spanish its: Muy Persona My question is so you have to have a comma for Spanish? Anyone please help, thanks

A vote for filling in your profile. - AnnRon, Nov 14, 2015

A vote from me for filling in your profile please also add your endder ;) - FELIZ77, Nov 14, 2015

Answer 1

Hello Spanishspeaking Kitty

Welcome to the SpanishDIct forum

Firstly, please complete your basic profile: giving 1 Your gender and 2 your levels of profiicency (ability) in Spanish and English We need to know ths so we can know how best to help you when you ask questions n the internet or have homework that you have already done that you want us to check!

Now to answer your question:

I have just consulted a document created for me and other students by my native Spanish teacher who comes from Spain, and in both the formal and informal examples she gives, she follows the words Dear .....with a colon:

1 Formal letter Señor Director::

You can also say, for example: Estimado señor (often shortened to Sr) Garcia: o Estimada señora (Sra)

2.Informal

Querida Lucia: (Lucy) / Querido Miguel:(Michael)

I hope this helps

This is good. - Daniela2041, Nov 14, 2015

Thank you, Daniela :) - FELIZ77, Nov 14, 2015

I just noticed, when you abbriviate "senor" it should be capitalized. "Sr." - Daniela2041, Nov 14, 2015

Thank you Daniela It was an oversight I must have copied that part incorrectly :) - FELIZ77, Nov 14, 2015

Answer 2

Please use proper grammar on the site. There are people learning English here. I usually start a letter with "Querido" or "Estimado", depending on the recipient.

Answer 3

I believe the punctuation after the salutation in a letter in Spanish is the colon rather than the comma.

Now that we have that out of the way, may I ask you to go back to your profile page and choose a level of proficiency for both English and Spanish? It helps members who would like to answer your posts to know how best to communicate with you.

oh ok thanks - SpanishSpeakingKitty, Nov 14, 2015

Answer 4

If you want to use ' muy' the correct phrasing is: Muy señor mío,// muy señoras mías. This is a formal way to begin a letter.