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Three Step Spanish - Learn #17 - Talking About Transportation in Spanish - Grammar

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

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learn to talk about transportation in Spanish

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Let's look at the sentence pattern. This pattern is the structure that all of our examples

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will follow.

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I'm going to go to place and transportation. I'm going to go to place by transportation.

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Let's look at the first part. Boya'ir a.

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Boy is the first person singular form of the verb,

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which means to go.

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A means to.

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I' means to.

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I'r is the dictionary form of the verb to go.

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When we say,

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boy a ir, we are saying, I'm going to go.

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This is a common way to talk about future actions in Spanish.

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Next is a place, which is a destination.

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It tells us where the speaker is going.

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Then we have N, transportation, which tells us how the speaker is getting there.

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N means by, and it's followed by the mode of transportation.

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When talking about going somewhere on foot, Spanish doesn't use

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N like it does for the other forms of transportation.

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Instead, it uses the phrase at pié, meaning on foot.

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Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern. I'm going to go to La Condesa in Metro.

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I'm going to go to La Condesa by subway.

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In this sentence,

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