SCENARIO
Imagine
you
are talking to a relative, a friend or colleague. Maybe you have moved recently and your relative, friend or colleague is doing a bit
of catching up. Maybe it appears that you are now living in a very
quiet spot. The other person
says to you something like: "how
many neighbours do you have?"
In
Spanish, the other person could choose to be less formal and say:
¿Cuántos
vecinos tienes?
Alternatively,
he/ she could choose to be more formal and say:
¿Cuántos
vecinos tiene (usted)?
OUR
TIP
The question is an
invitation for you to state how many neighbours you have. When you state
how many neighbours you have, you DO NOT need to be concerned about
the level of formality in the other person's question. Your main concern
should be about communicating the number of neighbours you have.
Perhaps what you want to say is that you:
- Don't have any neighbours;
- Have a specific number of neighbours;
- Still don't know how many neighbours you have;
Here are some
examples of how you could reply, which deal with a variety of
possible situations:
- No tengo vecinos (I have no neighbours);
- No tengo ningún vecino (I don't have any neighbours);
- Tengo dos* vecinos (I have two neighbours);
- Aun no sé cuantos vecinos tengo (I still don't know how many neighbours I have);
*NB
For other numbers of neighbours simply replace “dos” with
an appropriate number.
Now
you should practice answering the question:
¿Cuántos
vecinos tienes?
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1 comment:
Tenemos muchos vecinos y todos son muy buenos tambien.
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