"With whom do you study"

Question

To Spanish - "with whom do you study?"

Welcome to the forum , we want to help you so fill out your profile If you have a problem PM a mod Bienvenido al foro. Queremos ayudarle, entonces hay que llenar su perfil. Si hay un problema, envíe un mensaje personal (PM) - ray76, Apr 28, 2016

Gracias! I will and appreciate your help sir :) - Wduke, Apr 28, 2016

Thank you for filling out your profile , that is worth a vote from me mate. - ray76, Apr 28, 2016

Thanks Ray, I'm learning how this works and your response is veery cool. Looking forward to having fun learning a beautiful language. W - Wduke, Apr 28, 2016

A vote from me too amigo. - ian-hill, Apr 28, 2016

Thanks for your clarification and polite responses. You and your daughter are most welcome for our help. - Jubilado, Apr 28, 2016

Answer 1

Wduke, thanks for filling out your profile. I hope your daughter uses this site on her own as well. It is a wonderful place for learning Spanish (and vice-versa).

As for your question, it is pretty straightforward. As in English, in Spanish a statement becomes a question pretty much by inflection. So the statement "You study." ("You do study.") would become a question by saying "You study?" ("Do you study?")

In Spanish, then, the statement "Usted estudia." would become a question by doing this: "¿Usted estudia?"

Building on to that, to ask "With whom do you study" would be a matter of using the Spanish words "con(with) quien (who or whom)"

So, "With whom do you study?" is "¿Con quien usted estudia?"

One more thing, more often than not, you would not use the word "usted" except for clarity or emphasis, as the verb ending and context probably already tells you who is studying.

Good luck to you and your daughter!!

Thanks Winky , you are a legend mate. - ray76, Apr 28, 2016

I'm really excited to have stumbled upon this forum, you folks are awesome! Thank you for your help, I'm looking forward to helping others as well. This is really cool, I'm new at this and am overwhelmed - awesome. Can't wait to contribute I any way. - Wduke, Apr 28, 2016

Answer 2

To whom are you speaking? We are people here and we appreciate politeness and attempts on the part of the one posting to make his / her own attempts to answer the question being asked so we can verify or clarify. Thank you!

I'm sorry, I'm new and thought I was asking a computer. My daughter is taking Spanish and I was trying to help with homework. Thank you for your response, without it I would still be in the dark with regard to how this works :) - Wduke, Apr 28, 2016

Great to see another well mannered and appreciative member mate , good luck to him. - ray76, Apr 28, 2016

Answer 3

With whom do you study?

It amazes me how poorly the machine translator does with something this simple.

Nonetheless we are a learning site, not a translation site (the forum I mean), so the expectation is you make your best attempt and then we help you.

It is also nice if you fill in your profile to better help us gauge how to answer.

If you give us your best attempt, we can help with correcting it if needed.

Please reference the site rules here:

http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/282623/rules-and-guidelines-for-spanishdict-update

and here:

http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/280366/important-message-for-new-students-spanish-englishbefore-posting-read-this-please

Trust me, it would have been far simpler to just give you the answer than to explain the expectations of the site.

Quod dixi sed melior = Latin for What I said only better. - Jubilado, Apr 28, 2016

I understand now and appreciate your help. I thought I was typing a computer for translation. This is great, I'll get my daughter involved as she is taking Spanish in school. Thank you! - Wduke, Apr 28, 2016