On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:25:22 -0300 Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
writes:
>But I actually don't think the second person singular of "ir"
>is going to take up "andar". In my dialect at least, you might
>say "vos vas" /boh bah/ or even /bo'Bah/. "Vos anda's" /boh an'dah/
>is properly used for "andar", as in "andar enamorado" =3D=20
>"to be in love" (lit. "to walk in love").
>And the imperative "anda'" might not be so strong after all.
>Though it's already grammatical, I once heard a friend saying:
> "Si quere's irte, ite"
> "If you want to go, go"
>with *"ite" as the expected regular imperative of "ir", appended
>the pseudoreflexive "-te". Of course we all split our sides
>laughing, but the word has its beauty...
>--Pablo Flores
What exactly is _vos_? A version of _tu'_? "vas" seems to be the same
in both conjugations, but why is it _tu' andas_ and _vos anda's_? The
vosotros is _anda'is_, right?
-Stephen (Steg)
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