echo de menos

Question

What does that mean'

Answer 1

Te echo de menos - I miss you

If you want to add 'very much', where do you put 'mucho' in the sentence, and why?

Te echo de menos mucho - o - Te echo mucho de menos

Answer 2

I think it sounds better, actually. It also depends if you wish to emphasise the place or the time.

(...and if I stay much longer on the forum my jewel will kick me out !!)

Answer 3

Yes, I think we can all agree that using llevar solves all problems. (International diplomacy in action!)

Question: It sounds better to me to have the time period directly follow the verb llevar. That is, I would have said "Lleva unas semanas en Nueva York." Is that incorrect, or not as good?

Similarly, I would have said "Llevo 5 años viviendo en México."

¿Qué te parece'

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Gustavo, that's the way I learned it, and the texts I have used certainly don't use Spanglish.

If the sentence were "Hace unas semanas que está en NY," then I would agree that it means "She has been in NY for a few weeks," but I have never seen it used without the que and at the end of the sentence. If I went to Spain and heard that, it would really confuse me.

Dos países separados por un idioma común. jejej Así se dice en cuanto a las dos variedades de inglés.

Answer 8

Yeah, to my gringo ear it sounds like she is saying "I miss my sister because she is in NY a few weeks ago."

On a similar topic, I know that AmEng has been influencing BrEng a great deal in the past few decades, much to the chagrin of many Brits, but I wonder if Mexican Spanish has been doing the same to Iberian Spanish.

Answer 9

Le, Les is common in the Spain Spanish.
La, Lo(s) is used in Latin America.

When you are talking as a personal reflection is not necesary at the begining, you can say: "echo de menos a mi hermana = extraño a mi hermana"

In a conversation or structured sentence, you can use it:
- Supe que tu hermana está de viaje.
- Si, está en Nueva York, y la/le echo de menos!

Espero sea de alluda.

Answer 10

Yes, really you can. In Spain preferably "hace unas semanas", as you did.

Answer 11

So I can say it any way I want to

Answer 12

Thank you, Gustavo & James!

Answer 13

Although "extrañar" a alguien is the most common way to use this prhase,
echar de menos also can be use as "note the lack of something".

Answer 14

James, this por here is very typical for south American. In Spanish though we DO say: hace unas semanas.

I personally consider "por unas semanas" spanglish, I hope Gustavo won't be annoyed.

Answer 15

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