Llevarse con...

Question

Any time in English when you would say someone takes something with them. Not specifying a destination point. Would you use llevarse instead of llevar.

For example: ¨are you going to take the keys with you¨

Because of lack of destination would it be ¨¿te vas a llevar las llaves contigo? or does ¨vas a llevar las llaves contigo¨ make sense as well.

Answer 1

On my side of the world, I don't think any of these options would sound strange:

1. ¿Te vas a llevar las llaves? (contigo would be redundant here)
2. ¿Vas a llevarte las llaves? (same as above)
3. ¿Vas a llevar las llaves?
4. ¿Llevas las llaves contigo? 5.¿Te llevas las llaves?
5. ¿Vas a llevar las llaves contigo? (I can imagine that people may likely say this, but again "contigo" may be redundant)
6. ¿Vas a llevarte las llaves contigo? (Again, I don't think it's impossible that someone could say this, but it is even more redundant than the above).

Agree and contigo Is ok too - Polenta, Sep 12, 2017

oye, cómo narices se hace lo de los números, no lo acabo de pillar, grrrrrrr - 006595c6, Sep 12, 2017

Yo simplemente comencé escribiendo 1. xxxx, y luego al entrar la próxima línea, el 2. apareció solo. - Gekkosan, Sep 12, 2017

en serio?????????????? - 006595c6, Sep 12, 2017

pue sno me funciona...voy a ver si alguien me lo explica - 006595c6, Sep 12, 2017

Answer 2

Anyway, my choice:

1) ¿Te llevas las llaves?

2) ¿Te vas a llevar las llaves?

Answer 3

Look what gekko said:

¿Te vas a llevar las llaves? (contigo would be redundant here)

I would interpret this as : are you going to take the keys...or leave them at home as I have keys too?

¿Vas a llevar las llaves?

This would be highly improbable. Sounds like: are you taking the keys, like: are you taking your handbag ?

¿Llevas las llaves contigo?

This is completely different:

Do you have the keys with you? on you? emphasis on "contigo"

Also simply: ¿llevas llaves?

5.¿Te llevas las llaves?

Are you taking your keys ? Same as sentence one.

¿Vas a llevarte las llaves contigo? (Again, I don't think it's impossible that someone could say this, but it is even more redundant than the above).

Here I do think this makes perfect sense:

It gives an idea of "as opposed to", emphasis on "contigo".

Are you going to take your keys with you or are you going to leave them in the car?