"este está"vs "este es"

Question

When to use "este está" vs "este es".

For an example: - Este está más barato - Este es más nuevo

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Answer 1

In the absence of you having filled out your profile, I can only guess how to answer:

If you knowledge is basic- this is a simple ser vs. estar question.

Basically ser is for characteristics and estar for conditions. With enough additional layers of complexity that whole books have been written on the subject.

Here is our first lesson on it, there are more in the grammar section to follow-on:

http://www.spanishdict.com/topics/show/41

If you are more advanced, you should not have an issue with "es nuevo", but could with "está barato"- so here the explanation on that level, from quotes from native speakers:

http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ser-estar-barato.1118968/

El agua es barata: siempre es barata.

Las patatas están baratas: en este momento valen poco, aunque antes o después su precio puede subir y dejar de estar baratas.

es barato: tiene un precio módico

está barato: por alguna circunstancia (quizás hay muchas naranjas y para venderlas las ponen más baratas)

Esta aprendiendo mucho! Gracias! - 00cc0117, Jan 28, 2016

Answer 2

Este as you have presented it acts as a pronoun, so you can use any subject and the question of "está vs es" will be the same. This question has been answered hundreds of times on this forum, so this answer is very basic: Estar is used to indicate a state of being of something. Ser is used to indicate the nature of something.

Claro! Gracias! - 00cc0117, Jan 28, 2016