Let's practice using Uste.

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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

This week we're going to learn the verb estar.

But for today, we need to learn a new subject pronoun, a new way to say you in Spanish.

Basically, unlike all the subject pronouns that we learned last week, this is a person that

exists in Spanish, but doesn't exist in English. Here's what I mean. Let's review which subject pronoun goes with which conjugation of ser.

For the most part, these verb forms are more or less clear which person they're talking about.

So for soy, we have yo. It's the only option, yo soy. For Eres, we have I. It's the only option. I am soe.

For Eres, we have

Tu. Tu Eres.

For Somos, we have

Nosotros and sometimes

nosotras.

And for Son, we have

either Egos or Ejas.

For Es, we could use El or Eja. And actually, there's yet another subject pronoun that could be used with EES, which is yet another reason that Es is the most used verb form

in the Spanish language. Here's the thing.

When you're talking to a single person in standard Spanish, there are actually two ways to say

you. We've already learned too, but the other word is Ustead, spelled U-S-T-E-D, Ustead.

Ustead means you, but in a formal context.

Let's say you walk into a store and you want to speak with the store owner.

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